footfootfoot wrote:

   It's still fresh but has some Dell bloatware on it. I am tempted to wipe the drive and reinstall windows from a media creation tool but I'm worried there might be some stull that Dell put on there that  might actually need.  

Removing so called bloatware accomplishes nothing.  Anything you want to remove is easily accomplished from a Control Panel.  But that will not make your machine any faster, recovers almost zero more disk drive, and does nothing negative if just left alone.

Those partitions do plenty of useful functions.  Wiping a drive can simply remove functions that make a Dell so more reliable than other less machines.  Including the partition that holds the most critical software - comprehensive hardware diagnostics.

We has a computer that even destroyed the reinstalltion software.  It took days to restore everything.  I am not so sure some of the software was properly restored.

Wiping the drive really does nothing useful.  Even separating data, programs, and OS into separate partitions can cause further complications down the road.  Nobody can accurately say how big each partition should be.  Get it wrong and you have simply created more problems - while accomplishing nothing.

Cortana is something that MS has entrenched.  Destroying it can even obstruct full access to help menus.  Just leaven it alone and don't use it.

Best thing to do is delete (unpinn) all those stupid tiles.  An invention by Balmer that made no sense.

Some do not know why its service tag provides access to so many other useful functions.  At some point, take a tour of what that can also provide - unique for your machine.
 

footfootfoot wrote:

Thanks... tw.

Ok, I get it now.

You people are turning on me, aren't you?
 

I, for one, don't miss the good old days when I had to manually crank the motor to start it or manually operate the oiler to keep the valve train lubricated.  Those are comic exaggerations, but a manual choke and non self cancelling turn signals.. not exaggerations.

The computers have advanced similarly.  Usually, to our benefit, convenience-wise and performance-wise.  Security and "privacy", -wise, it's mixed.

But for tuning your new computer, unless you're doing something more exotic than just home computering, leave it the f alone.  I had a mutual non-aggression pact with a pair of synchronized Zenith-Stromberg carburetors.  I didn't fuck with them, they didn't fuck with me.  Worked out great.  Feel free to use this example as a template for your new life with your new computer.

TheNeverWas wrote:

Feet, you misspelled commuter in the thread title.

I just noticed that. D'oh!

BigV wrote:

  The computers have advanced similarly.  Usually, to our benefit, convenience-wise and performance-wise. 

  Any industry that has not obsolete its entire product line in ten years is headed for bankruptcy.  Superior foreign competitors are taking over that market.

Automobile industry is a perfect example.  They so hated innovation after 1970 that Federal laws had to require them to replace obsolete carburetors with old and well proven technology - fuel injectors. They so hated innovation for so many decades that most cars, built in America, now have foreign nameplates.

Clinton gave them $million in the early 1990s to develop hybrids.  Their hatred of innovation meant they stifled innovation for 20 years.  Then finally a first GM hybrid - Chevy Volt.  Its engine could not even recharge its battery.  The only hybrid, anywhere in the world, that has that massive design failure.

An example of an anti-American company because it will not innovate every ten years.

What happens in a computer industry demonstrates what must happen in every patriotic American industry.  Free markets punish those who do not innovate.  Who only want to make profits.
 

My commuter advice is to be mindful of the bus speed.

So, new Dell Optiplex 7090. Am I impressed?
Not So Much.

First, I can't figure out how to turn off the Microsoft advertisements/notifications/prompts asknig me if I want to try this or try that or sign up for the other thing. I don't. I just want to get to work.

Second, the second wireless keyboard I got from them is also not recognized by the receiver but the mouse is. Dell suggests a bunch of things, none of which fix the problem, Not least because one of the fixes is to download and install a few critical updates that --- you are correct if you guessed "failed to install".

None of the updates would install despite trying three times.

PER EVERYONE'S ADVICE I DID NOT FUCK WITH ANYTHING ON THIS COMPUTER.  Maybe now is the time that I re-install the OS or run restore or whatever.

This is supposed to be an out of the box, plug and play.


 

Last edited by footfootfoot (2/19/2022 1:43 pm)

If a diagnostic said fail, then something is defective.

I will never understand why a mouse and keyboard are wireless.  I have discovered good keyboards in the trash because a low battery meant only one letter key stopped working.  Why would anyone need something that requires constant battery replacement and a power off switch?  When a mouse and keyboard always remains adjacent to the computer?

Verify batteries are good.  That can only be done (without doubt) using a meter.  If not, you have a warranty to replace it.  And diagnostics that said where a defect resides.

Microsoft does have an option to turn off  "notifications'.  But to find it, one must first know the correct word to search on: notifications.  OSes have so much inside that it sometimes becomes hard to locate a solution.

In one example, intra-networking stopped working.  Turns out that updates no longer supported an older version of SMB.  No documentation said anything about this.  That also took a long time to uncover / discover.  I have been there doing same as you with other 'challenges'.

Many of these complication are due to massive security changes being implemented at a furious rate even due to things happening in Ukraine.  Try locating Personal Templates in Word.  Somehow that has disappeared or was changes.  (Anybody know how to enable that feature?)

But diagnostics clearly say the keyboard is not talking to that wireless adaptor.  And the mouse is.  So (apparently) something is wrong with the keyboard.  Or maybe a wrong keyboard was provided for that adaptor.  But you have a fact that only exists because diagnostics exist.  Diagnostic provided that hard fact.

Nothing (in your summary) says anything is wrong iwth the OS.  Reinstalling increases the number of unknowns.  That means a problem becomes exonentially more complex.

Never once saw a diagnostic message from Dell that said that.  But then I would always load the diagnostics into a partition intended only for diagnostics.  So that diagnostics could run without Windows.  Windows (as it should) can mask and work around defects.

Step one. What are voltage numbers for each keyboard battery?
 

Last edited by tw (2/19/2022 3:13 pm)