Microsoft may not offer Media Center on any versions of Windows 10, but that doesn’t mean there is no way to get it working…
Windows 10 Upgrade Blocking
Here at Puget Systems, there has been a lot of talk about the free Windows 10 upgrade process available to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. But if you are going to be sticking with your existing Windows installation, this will help you to disable the notifications and pop ups and try to prevent the upgrade.
Adobe After Effects CC 2015 Multi Core Performance
High-end systems for After Effects are often sold with two high core count CPUs for maximum CPU performance. However, our testing has shown that After Effects actually has some significant performance problems with multiple CPUs which makes those configurations in reality much slower than a system with a single CPU.
An update on us.
Sunday is my quiet day. Made more so today, by the fact that our kids (all four of them) went to my parent’s house yesterday for an overnight visit. I set aside Sundays to be a relaxed, stress free day that allows me to recharge. Lately, here at Puget, I have been recommending that practice to everyone on our team.
“Why now, in particular?” you may ask.
It’s been nuts.
Intel Skylake 6700K with Parallel Studio XE 2016 vs 2015 on Fedora 23 Much Better!
Intel Skylake Core-i7 CPU — 256 GFLOP/s Linpack result with Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 and MKL 11.3 vs 200 GFLOP/s using Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 and MKL 11.2!
Agisoft PhotoScan Multi Core Performance
PhotoScan is a program that takes a series of photographs and combines them into a 3D model. In this article we will be benchmarking PhotoScan to determine exactly how well it is able to utilize multiple CPU cores to help determine what CPU will give the best overall performance for PhotoScan.
Agisoft PhotoScan GPU Acceleration
PhotoScan is a program that takes a series of photographs and combines them into a 3D model. What is a bit unique about it is that the performance of certain portions of the software can be drastically improved by used multiple video cards.
My Privacy Preferences in Windows 10
There has been a lot of talk about privacy concerns in Windows 10 lately, and several good articles have been published covering what settings are available to restrict the amount of information being sent back to Microsoft. I don’t presume to be able to do a better job than any of those authors, but having now had a few customers ask me about this stuff I thought it might be nice to share what settings I personally change on my Windows 10 computers.
Black Screens, Cursors and Phantom Monitors
Here you are, Windows 10 bound and excited for your new OS. Suddenly, you’re greeted with… Nothing? This is a fairly common occurrence on computers that have taken the complimentary upgrade.
Windows 10 Sales
Nearly every day a customer asks me how Windows 10 is doing in terms of sales. It’s usually wise to wait a few months to gauge how a new operating system is performing. As much as Microsoft wants everyone to move to Windows 10, it can take time for the hardware makers to test their products and release updated drivers for a new operating system.
Microsoft released Windows 8 to the public just under three years ago. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we didn’t see a lot of pent up demand from our customers. We had a few customers who were curious and decided to make the jump, but the vast majority of our customer hit the snooze button on 8 and stuck with 7.
