
Snap! Ransomware university attacks, Win 10 update, Chrome sidebar, & Earth Day! Spiceworks Originals. For any of you support remote workers, what do you do when a laptop needs to be repaired? Do you send out a temporary laptop for the staff member or do they just wait for the repair to return?Just tr. Hello,I am IT Admin for a startup that is fully remote.
How do you manage repairs for remote staff? Networking. Hello, I am IT director for a medium sized company (100 PC) based in Canada and starting 2 years ago like many corporations, we gone from a 100% local business to 75% remote employee working from home from anywhere in Canada and even worldwide (I have emp. Remotely lockdown/wipe corporate computer when employee terminates? Security. Computers boot quickly with SSDs, so it hasn't been worth turning back on to test. We've had it disabled for a few years now, so these might not be a problem anymore. Extra unnecessary writes to SSD - more of a concern than an issue because SSD life isn't really a problem anymore. Hiberfile.sys taking up lots of space on small SSDs. Applications not closing when "shutting down" (this creates an issue with our ERP). This is a lot of it, but we've also had some technical issues/concerns: It would be like a car manufacturer switching the gas peddle and the break position in your car and then claiming it works as designed while ignore all the issues they caused. Worse yet it still says its doing A while it does Z in the background While yes they published this in a corner of their documentation end users don't see or read this documentation and by changing the meaning of A they have caused no end of issues with end users and computers not behaving as expected, ss every windows user has been conditioned \ trained to expect it to behave as A for the last 30 years and now it does Z. Its not that the feature doesn't work its that they MS took something that means A then changed the meaning to mean Z
Otherwise, what problems are you guys seeing with it? Is it just the "time since last reboot" metric? The last problem I had with it was related to the NumLock function not turning on at startup, and that was with Windows 8.1. Wow, I'm honestly amazed at how salty everyone is about Fast Startup! Did it ever cause me headaches? Sure, but years ago.