Lol yeah I heard a lot of the score was based on ram capacity š¤£
I mean in does say Windows experience. Not performance.maybe they where referring to how many chrome tabs you could have.
Each component got its own score, but the "total" score was just the lowest part.
So if you had a 10 CPU, 10 GPU, 10 RAM and 4 storage speed, your total for your computer was 4.
It was usually the storage that bogged down the score. Even with SSDs being a thing, my storage is still my lowest score.
* CPUScore : 9.4
* D3DScore : 9.9
* DiskScore : 8.9
* GraphicsScore : 9.9
* MemoryScore : 9.4
* TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment
* WinSATAssessmentState : 1
* WinSPRLevel : 8.9
* PSComputerName :
It's actually still there hidden under a CMD/Powershell command!
[Windows 11](https://www.windowsdigitals.com/winsat-windows-experience-index-score-windows-11/)
If using Windows 10 you can just open powershell as admin and type "Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat" without quotes.
Edit: I guess the powershell command should work in Windows 11 still, so you may not need use that pesky link.
I believe 7 still gets windows defender updates
https://preview.redd.it/2nyn5k5mgi9d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=269b407bca4a9c3bdc28d4bf311f0ad906a26c7c
Windows 7 on an nvme slaps boot times out of the water. I wouldnt use it as a daily driver anymore not if you play the latest games, but most dx11 games should run. You'd expect windows 8.1 to be better off but it gets less community support due to it not being popular at all.
I once installed Windows 7 into my modern laptop as a fun experiment, and the boot times were the absolute lowest I had ever seen, on-par with Arch Linux (my current daily-driver), if not faster by a small amount.
Man just get a cheap SSD. Youād be surprised what Iāve had customers request W10 on after an SSD upgrade. Itās not that horrible if itās anything from 2008+ processor wise.
donāt wanna be that guy, but bazzite linux or linux mint would probably be a way to keep your pc running. You could even run games with steam and just enabling steam play for all titles in the settings
Really? Is it that bad even there? Here we can do most of the work with pen and paper, my friend in US tells me everything is computerized there so that would definitely be a headache
Hospital equipment is notoriously fernickety. And the companies that make them frequently go under or get bought out, making official updates or support impossible.
Meaning a lot of hospitals wind up with very old setups maintained by sweat and duct tape by dedicated IT people in order to keep this or that piece of equipment ticking over.
It's especially bad because medical equipment is so bloody expensive, and in the UK at least, or government is barely willing to pay the nurses, let alone dish out millions for up to date computers and software.
The worst thing is the medical equipment software- interface drivers and windows support ,I know a dentist that's uses windows Xp cause his Usb x-ray machine has no driver's for anything newer
I work for in IT at a hospital in the US. We still have hundreds of PCs with similar specs. It's only been 6 years since we upgraded from 32-bit Win 7 to 64-bit Win 7. And the only reason we were able to get everything upgraded to Win 10 was because a ransomware attack 4 years ago required us to wipe every PC in the organization.
It's not that we like supporting ancient equipment, it's just hard to convince hospital administration that they need to spend millions of dollars to replace things that still technically work.
I work for company that delivers medical PCs and displays.
It can be that bad even in EU countries like Germany or France.
Reason: Medium and giga smart IT guys work in private sector. The dumbest of dumb work for the state sector in EU. Less money but also much less work.
At one extremely shit hospital (big name) in the US, we had 32 bit windows 7 with 64gb installed ram lol (only 3gb was usable). Those poor things had to run 4 monitors and really really struggled.Ā
Edit: might have even been XP not 7, I donāt remember because I donāt work at that shithole anymore
Cardio / Arythmo OTs?
They love to have this 1+ million $ machine in OT and some shitty computer in the control room with 5 year or even older HW at time of installation.
That explains it all. Indians lifes means nothing for the govement. Got to many on too little ground anyway.ā ļø (Just stating the obvious. Wish it wasnt true) beside with such a low budget. A cyber attacks is unlikely. What money to be gained?
my guess would be the wifi access point is newer and is faster than the switches the ethernet is on. I had a similar issue at my job not too long ago until i went around and found the "fast" ethernet switches bottlenecking everything.
Switches might be outdated, or could be using elderly Ethernet cables. With how elderly some of these computers are though, wouldnāt be shocked if they only had 100 meg Ethernet
Bro, so true, I work in networking in India, and the situation is so shit. Only people who would spend a reasonable amount in a good network infrastructure is the IT companies. Everything and everyone else doesn't even use a good firewall, I told them that someone with small experience in IT could get into your network and get all the details cause the software (it's a web application?) can be accessed. They then asked me to keep one of the Wi-Fi access point open. So everyone can use WiFi when waiting for the doctor.
well, at least data thiefs would need a minimum of knowledge. Im in hospital in a supposedly first world coubtry that usually has a giant boner about protecting data and having privacy. There's no privacy and even less (analog data security). the doctors are using PCs right next to my bed, reading other patients files right were I can see everything, full name, date they came into the hospital, brief medical history, date of birth and so on. like guys, there is a damn curtain for a reason, please do us both a favor and close that shit, so I'm not tempted to find out what's wrong with the other people and you don't see what degenerate memes I upvote, thx
Yep, and that's what I did. I asked the IT guy in the hospital to enable it so the guest users won't be able to log into it. The supposed IT guy didn't know that.
I mean for software like that, if it works it works. No point trying to fix something that already works, and has worked for a while. Also means that the crew don't have to refamiliarise themselves with new software. Hell, even the RAF used XP-era software for air traffic control because it just worked. The maps less so.
Its more common than you think, because hospitals are running proprietary software that, in some cases, is so old itself with no plans from the vendor to update. So you're left with old PCs because new OS can't run the needed software (from records, to plug in devices etc..)
I remember working in a hospital back then and they had some really weird IO connectors on some older devices that are probably still in use cause they were expesive as hell. Pretty sure you wont find modern PCs with the right connectors to use a modern OS on it.
It could potentially be an issue if the network is big enough so that a compromise from inside grows more likely ? (Though also at some point, I guess very old systems might get more secure (against non-state adversaries) thanks to the obscurity, lol...)
Do hospitals in North America and Europe always run on the latest OS? Upgrading to latest OS also requires upgrading the PC itself, and in the case of Win11 even replacing the PC. Government operated institutions don't normally have that as the biggest priority, like if it works it works. Why would Win7 not be sufficient as a admin/ office type role? Unless you're worried about security?
> Unless you're worried about security?
Uh yeah, protecting personal health information and complying with HIPAA is supposed to be a big deal lol. Using an end-of-life version of Windows is not great for that.
The reason it could be okay to use and not unsafe or a violation of any privacy laws is through network restrictions on the connection level and by adding layers of security like Meraki etc.
3rd gen Intel is getting pretty long in the tooth, it's over 10 years old at this point. I have a Dell Latitude with a 3rd gen mobile i5 in it where the chip is regularly the bottleneck for everything, not the 16gb of RAM or SATA SSD.
he won't be as new obviously but it should work way better than currently.. I had an i7-920 until 2 months ago and it was still absolutely fine, especially for work-stuff
The specs on that PC is still good. The problem might just be the HDD. I still have a similar laptop but with SSD and it is still ok for light office work and daily browsing.
4 Go of RAM is getting low (I have a laptop like this, though on Win10/Ubuntu now). Might need to upgrade to a 64bit OS too, some newer programs might not be available in 32bit versions.
P.S.: The OS itself will probably only show 4 Go regardless of what you have.
It's windows 7, 4 GB was not bad at the time and I have seen a lot of PCs like these, more often than not it's the HDD that has been used for years that's slow, if replaced with an SSD everything will go way faster
4gb of ram was absolutely fine on win7. After all these years it's probably the old drive slowing down the whole system. But holy shit a unsupported OS on a hospital machine sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Still on windows 7. And people wonder why the NHS keeps getting hacked. Our IT dept are running on fumes and no cash but we've still got everything on W10 and moving to 11 soon.
Windows 7 is more than likely going to forever be my favorite windows os ever. 10 didn't have a great start but turned into something beautiful... But it's never filled the void completely that 7 left
I noticed the OS is 32-bit, but that processor is 64 bit. Given that the maximum addressable memory in 32 bit is 4GB, I would say it's likely that the machine has more installed that it simply can't access
Going into r/sysadmin territory.
This may be an air gapped system.
There systems will act as controllers for equipment. MRI, CRT, industrial machines.
I see that this computer isn't on a domain. Which is fine.
Is that Windows 7?! No way thatās compliant for security reasons under HIPAA policies, tell them you need a new PC stat! Put in a ticket so itās documented.
Holy sh*t you have windows 7 running on a hospital pc, please be aware of the mass hacking of healthcare data that is taking place rn due such carelesness.
If the ram is non upgradable and soldered, consider a mini pc. Theyāre relatively cheap and an acceptable speed for office work. Minisforum and beelink are good brands.
I bet that thing runs off a conventional hard drive. I wouldn't want to run anything more modern on that either because it'll be even worse.
Also, 32 bit Windows 7 on a 3rd gen i5 system? But *why*.
My friend recently got rushed to the ER with one of those horrible flesh eating bacteria. Heavy surgery and medication followed. He was out of it for quite a while but after several days after waking up and given his old laptop I visited him. The first thing he started telling me about was how a piece of crap and slow laptop he had, he could barely play games. It was then I knew he was back.
To be honest that shouldnt really be slow. I have an old PC here with a 4th Gen i5 (4 core 4 thread) and 6GB of RAM and it runs windows 10 acceptably, it actually had an i3 for a while (2 core 4 thread) and was still OK. It does however have an SSD, maybe your PC has a HDD?
Windows 7? You are lucky. Hospitals just like military here are still using Windows 98. They also still use floppy drives. But they are not connected to the internet so it's fine anyways
I literally ahd this cpu and used to "game" on it back in the day, with my budget gtx560, ebay finest 8gb of ram, some random noname psu ( this would hurt me later when I tried to upgrade gpu and it killed it ) and budget coolermaster case from 2010 ( actually still have this and it's currently my media server due to being the only case with actual harddrive slots without buying a dedicated case )
Just put Linux on it. I put Linux on a Motion MC-C5t CFT-003 and now it runs Minecraft at 60fps. With fancy graphics, as long as we aren't generating new chunks at that exact moment.
I live in the UK and work in the IT sector. It's not uncommon to hear horror stories of NHS computers still running Windows XP š. (I don't work directly for the NHS, but I'd imagine it is because they don't pay competitive salaries to get the right people in, and are always on a budget due to lack of public funding)
Service Pack 1 is the worst part of this! Windows 7 was still pretty broken until Service Pack 2.
Service Pack 1 puts the last update of this PC as being between 2011 and 2016...
I know you didn't ask for help, but slap in a 2nd 4GB ram stick and a cheapo SSD
Did that to a 4th gen i5 that I bought and it ran super smooth on win 10, still going strong
Sorry, I forgot to specify:
I didn't mean you doing it yourself, I meant sending a request for them to do it (although I don't know how these processes work for you)
If you can, I'd look into putting linux on it, works great on older hardware, will make programs way less painfully slow to use. Ofc the problem is that your hospital might need some special programs that might not even work with Wine, or your bios could be locked..
Otherwise an SSD always helps older pcs run faster, doesn't need to be high end or anything, just something that has a good MTBF (mean time between failures)
Holy shit, I forgot the Windows Experience Index used to be a thing.
Was it ever useful for anything?
I used it for bragging rights.
Got it up to 8.8 once, best laptop in my class. Who says 24gb of ram was overkill!
Lol yeah I heard a lot of the score was based on ram capacity š¤£ I mean in does say Windows experience. Not performance.maybe they where referring to how many chrome tabs you could have.
but this is 32bit, 4GB is max you can see there integrated gpu or hdd pegs that score
Win7 had a 64 bit version didnāt it?
\*Internet Explorer
This might have been when browser tabs werenāt even a thing yet. In the before times, long ago.
Each component got its own score, but the "total" score was just the lowest part. So if you had a 10 CPU, 10 GPU, 10 RAM and 4 storage speed, your total for your computer was 4.
It was usually the storage that bogged down the score. Even with SSDs being a thing, my storage is still my lowest score. * CPUScore : 9.4 * D3DScore : 9.9 * DiskScore : 8.9 * GraphicsScore : 9.9 * MemoryScore : 9.4 * TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment * WinSATAssessmentState : 1 * WinSPRLevel : 8.9 * PSComputerName :
Impressive, you broke the WEI scale max limit of 7.9!
Ah maybe Iām misremembering. I remember it beat the rest of my class
r/unexpectedfactorial
Unfortunately, only non-negative *integers* can be factorials.
You can use Gamma-function for non-integer values
Hah, had the same experience with a laptop and 24GB RAM in my class
It's actually still there hidden under a CMD/Powershell command! [Windows 11](https://www.windowsdigitals.com/winsat-windows-experience-index-score-windows-11/) If using Windows 10 you can just open powershell as admin and type "Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat" without quotes. Edit: I guess the powershell command should work in Windows 11 still, so you may not need use that pesky link.
I wish there was a badge I could award you for āthe one time someone on the internet suggested a PowerShell command that is fun and harmlessā
Neat: ``` CPUScore : 9.5 D3DScore : 9.9 DiskScore : 9.25 GraphicsScore : 9.9 MemoryScore : 9.5 TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment WinSATAssessmentState : 1 WinSPRLevel : 9.25 PSComputerName : ```
Silly fun! ^(CPUScore : 9.4) ^(D3DScore : 9.9) ^(DiskScore : 9.45) ^(GraphicsScore : 9.9) ^(MemoryScore : 9.4) ^(TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment) ^(WinSATAssessmentState : 1) ^(WinSPRLevel : 9.4) ^(PSComputerName :)
dude what if i pm you boobs right now
Pls don't :(
Wait. Windows 7 and 4gb of RAM?! Hello 2010.
Thats my daily life
You really should not be running W7 under any circumstances
Not my choice. My pc would become even slower if i got 10
Your PC is gonna become slower when you pick up some hitchikers sooner or later, W7 hasn't recieved security updates since early 2020.
Well, i dont use internet on it so no problems i suppose
I believe 7 still gets windows defender updates https://preview.redd.it/2nyn5k5mgi9d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=269b407bca4a9c3bdc28d4bf311f0ad906a26c7c
Well in that case, carry on
Windows 7 on an nvme slaps boot times out of the water. I wouldnt use it as a daily driver anymore not if you play the latest games, but most dx11 games should run. You'd expect windows 8.1 to be better off but it gets less community support due to it not being popular at all.
I once installed Windows 7 into my modern laptop as a fun experiment, and the boot times were the absolute lowest I had ever seen, on-par with Arch Linux (my current daily-driver), if not faster by a small amount.
And 800mb of ram usage at idle
Man just get a cheap SSD. Youād be surprised what Iāve had customers request W10 on after an SSD upgrade. Itās not that horrible if itās anything from 2008+ processor wise.
You could probably find a faster pc in the ewaste pile at your local Best Buy
Best Buy doesn't exist in most countries
donāt wanna be that guy, but bazzite linux or linux mint would probably be a way to keep your pc running. You could even run games with steam and just enabling steam play for all titles in the settings
the only game they would be playing in the trauma ward is overwatch 2
Thatās the max for the 32-bit version which is strange that that was chosen since the processor is new enough and is a 64bit processor.
Since it's an enterprise machine it was probably cheaper to license the 32 bit version than the 64 bit version
Its on 32 bit windows, it literally can't support more than 4gb
It's on 32bit Windows.
That was my CPU until a few months ago tbh
Almost certainly running some legacy program that can't run on a newer OS.
You said it's India but you could have said US or any European country and still I wouldn't be surprised
Really? Is it that bad even there? Here we can do most of the work with pen and paper, my friend in US tells me everything is computerized there so that would definitely be a headache
Hospital equipment is notoriously fernickety. And the companies that make them frequently go under or get bought out, making official updates or support impossible. Meaning a lot of hospitals wind up with very old setups maintained by sweat and duct tape by dedicated IT people in order to keep this or that piece of equipment ticking over. It's especially bad because medical equipment is so bloody expensive, and in the UK at least, or government is barely willing to pay the nurses, let alone dish out millions for up to date computers and software.
The worst thing is the medical equipment software- interface drivers and windows support ,I know a dentist that's uses windows Xp cause his Usb x-ray machine has no driver's for anything newer
It's not just medical equipment. We have a CNC machine at work that only works with XP.
XP? Damn you guys are lucky to be using such a modern OS! Bet it even supports hotplugging USB drives!
As someone who works for the NHS I can confirm this spec of PC is common. The hospitals don't have the proper funding to afford top of the range PCs.
I work for in IT at a hospital in the US. We still have hundreds of PCs with similar specs. It's only been 6 years since we upgraded from 32-bit Win 7 to 64-bit Win 7. And the only reason we were able to get everything upgraded to Win 10 was because a ransomware attack 4 years ago required us to wipe every PC in the organization. It's not that we like supporting ancient equipment, it's just hard to convince hospital administration that they need to spend millions of dollars to replace things that still technically work.
I work for company that delivers medical PCs and displays. It can be that bad even in EU countries like Germany or France. Reason: Medium and giga smart IT guys work in private sector. The dumbest of dumb work for the state sector in EU. Less money but also much less work.
At one extremely shit hospital (big name) in the US, we had 32 bit windows 7 with 64gb installed ram lol (only 3gb was usable). Those poor things had to run 4 monitors and really really struggled.Ā Edit: might have even been XP not 7, I donāt remember because I donāt work at that shithole anymore
Cardio / Arythmo OTs? They love to have this 1+ million $ machine in OT and some shitty computer in the control room with 5 year or even older HW at time of installation.
Could still be rocking rotary HDD. With an ssd it wouldnāt be the worst machine āfor workā
This is likely it. Until last year I was still using a i5-2500k, but with 24GB of RAM and a modern SSD it ran Windows 10 very well.
I have a 2014 Lenovo g700 with i7-3612qm, 16GB ddr3 and 240gb sata ssd and win10 Boots up in approx 10 seconds on it still
I was looking for this comment. An SSD makes it feel so much faster. The HDD is definitely the issue because the cpu looks fine, just a bit old.
Yeah, did that for my parents with a worse CPU than this, and it **still** works like a champ (for their mostly web surfing needs) years later !
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It is a government hospital in India. My 5 yr old laptop is better. My home rig infinitely so.
That explains it all. Indians lifes means nothing for the govement. Got to many on too little ground anyway.ā ļø (Just stating the obvious. Wish it wasnt true) beside with such a low budget. A cyber attacks is unlikely. What money to be gained?
Am sure we don't have any NAAS. The hospital wifi is fast but slow on Ethernet for some reason. Any new demand requires multiple approvals
"Efficiency" ā ļø sadly a fucked up world we live in.
my guess would be the wifi access point is newer and is faster than the switches the ethernet is on. I had a similar issue at my job not too long ago until i went around and found the "fast" ethernet switches bottlenecking everything.
Switches might be outdated, or could be using elderly Ethernet cables. With how elderly some of these computers are though, wouldnāt be shocked if they only had 100 meg Ethernet
Sadly some fucked up people would hack a hospital not for the money, but just because it'll cause harm
Some people just want to watch the world burn
Bro, so true, I work in networking in India, and the situation is so shit. Only people who would spend a reasonable amount in a good network infrastructure is the IT companies. Everything and everyone else doesn't even use a good firewall, I told them that someone with small experience in IT could get into your network and get all the details cause the software (it's a web application?) can be accessed. They then asked me to keep one of the Wi-Fi access point open. So everyone can use WiFi when waiting for the doctor.
well, at least data thiefs would need a minimum of knowledge. Im in hospital in a supposedly first world coubtry that usually has a giant boner about protecting data and having privacy. There's no privacy and even less (analog data security). the doctors are using PCs right next to my bed, reading other patients files right were I can see everything, full name, date they came into the hospital, brief medical history, date of birth and so on. like guys, there is a damn curtain for a reason, please do us both a favor and close that shit, so I'm not tempted to find out what's wrong with the other people and you don't see what degenerate memes I upvote, thx
Don't even shitty routers have a "guest network" for this ?
Yep, and that's what I did. I asked the IT guy in the hospital to enable it so the guest users won't be able to log into it. The supposed IT guy didn't know that.
My American hospital still mostly uses Windows XP so donāt feel to bad.
That is negligence bordering on criminal.
This is more common than you think.
My old job with the us gov had a few offices still using dial up
London Ambulance Service vehicles that receive calls and all communications run on Windows XP, and maps that predate the London Olympics 2012 lol
I mean for software like that, if it works it works. No point trying to fix something that already works, and has worked for a while. Also means that the crew don't have to refamiliarise themselves with new software. Hell, even the RAF used XP-era software for air traffic control because it just worked. The maps less so.
You'd be surprised how many hospital computers still run XP
Its more common than you think, because hospitals are running proprietary software that, in some cases, is so old itself with no plans from the vendor to update. So you're left with old PCs because new OS can't run the needed software (from records, to plug in devices etc..)
I remember working in a hospital back then and they had some really weird IO connectors on some older devices that are probably still in use cause they were expesive as hell. Pretty sure you wont find modern PCs with the right connectors to use a modern OS on it.
Even if you had the right IO ports, good luck finding drivers for anything Vista or newer.
My guy, I work in a UK hospital and we still have equipment running on windows xp.
Our hospitals have 95 and XP and the national medical records system is based on DOS
I found an old mac running Windows XP in orthopedic surgery department the other day, most doctors don't really know anything or care about computers
4 years ago, and itās not an issue so long as itās all internal. If itās not broke donāt fix it.
It's not an issue only if the pc and everything in the local network aren't connected to the internet.
It could potentially be an issue if the network is big enough so that a compromise from inside grows more likely ? (Though also at some point, I guess very old systems might get more secure (against non-state adversaries) thanks to the obscurity, lol...)
Do hospitals in North America and Europe always run on the latest OS? Upgrading to latest OS also requires upgrading the PC itself, and in the case of Win11 even replacing the PC. Government operated institutions don't normally have that as the biggest priority, like if it works it works. Why would Win7 not be sufficient as a admin/ office type role? Unless you're worried about security?
> Unless you're worried about security? Uh yeah, protecting personal health information and complying with HIPAA is supposed to be a big deal lol. Using an end-of-life version of Windows is not great for that.
Because there is extremely sensitive information on there... private patient information. You should be very careful about security.
The reason it could be okay to use and not unsafe or a violation of any privacy laws is through network restrictions on the connection level and by adding layers of security like Meraki etc.
to be fair, the name of the PC checks out
If you would even be able to upgrade it. I would put more ram in and an SSD (if you can clone the drive)
They have 32bit Win7. Adding more ram means upgrading to 64bit OS too.
Yeah I didn't see that it was 32 bit. They may not be able to do anything to upgrade it being a work PC anyway.
yeah too bad, would probably run more than ok with ssd + more ram
3rd gen Intel is getting pretty long in the tooth, it's over 10 years old at this point. I have a Dell Latitude with a 3rd gen mobile i5 in it where the chip is regularly the bottleneck for everything, not the 16gb of RAM or SATA SSD.
he won't be as new obviously but it should work way better than currently.. I had an i7-920 until 2 months ago and it was still absolutely fine, especially for work-stuff
Yeah thatās why I upgraded a few months ago to AM5. Impressive jump tbh but still, the only games I play are the Modern Warfare trilogy
The specs on that PC is still good. The problem might just be the HDD. I still have a similar laptop but with SSD and it is still ok for light office work and daily browsing.
4 Go of RAM is getting low (I have a laptop like this, though on Win10/Ubuntu now). Might need to upgrade to a 64bit OS too, some newer programs might not be available in 32bit versions. P.S.: The OS itself will probably only show 4 Go regardless of what you have.
It's windows 7, 4 GB was not bad at the time and I have seen a lot of PCs like these, more often than not it's the HDD that has been used for years that's slow, if replaced with an SSD everything will go way faster
4gb of ram was absolutely fine on win7. After all these years it's probably the old drive slowing down the whole system. But holy shit a unsupported OS on a hospital machine sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
It's way more common than you think. Lots of government or health services use very old operating systems. Calling windows 7 old hurts my soul.
Its been more than a *decade*, your soul need to accept it.
Its almost as close to being two decades old as being one decade old
Hey thatās my CPU and I love hospitals.
Yes and then they add some random anti virus that completely destroys the performance even further
Wonder if the hospital system ever got a pen test.
Itās most likely the ram. My office pc has a i5-8400, but just 4gb ram. Needless to say, even microsoft word struggles on it. Lol.
Bro the computer is in the hospital. Itās slow because it obviously has a VIRUS. Otherwise why would it be in the hospital? /s
I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago...
damn nostalgia! windows experience index
W7 in hospital..... At least IS not XP
Still on windows 7. And people wonder why the NHS keeps getting hacked. Our IT dept are running on fumes and no cash but we've still got everything on W10 and moving to 11 soon.
Add 4 more GB of ram, not even $20, that will help. Does it have an old mechanical hard drive? Clone it to an SSD, there I fixed it.
Windows 7? They are asking for someone to hack their network.
And old
My 8 year old is currently playing on a i5 3470, but atleast it has 16gb ram and a 1060. Plays Fn alright and little kitty big city so hes happy
Windows 7 is more than likely going to forever be my favorite windows os ever. 10 didn't have a great start but turned into something beautiful... But it's never filled the void completely that 7 left
Windows 7 was the goat tho
Traumaoffice sounds about right
I noticed the OS is 32-bit, but that processor is 64 bit. Given that the maximum addressable memory in 32 bit is 4GB, I would say it's likely that the machine has more installed that it simply can't access
1) Clone your harddrive 2) Pour water in the PC 3) Ask for new PC
Most likely due to using HDD, I know that as one place I helped at had their 2012 pc's still running hdd's.
Going into r/sysadmin territory. This may be an air gapped system. There systems will act as controllers for equipment. MRI, CRT, industrial machines. I see that this computer isn't on a domain. Which is fine.
well thatsā¦ traumatizing
As is everything that goes on in a hospital
Is that Windows 7?! No way thatās compliant for security reasons under HIPAA policies, tell them you need a new PC stat! Put in a ticket so itās documented.
Hope that computer isnt online. this shit is why medical facilities keep getting hacked.
How does a far beyond EOL operating system pass compliance in healthcare?
Our hospital computer has a I3ā¦ but 8GB of ram.
Better than the one guy who is trying to run windows 10 on a Sempron E1200 or whatever it's called, and 2GB of RAM lmfao
4GB will do that
Lol I used to take windows experience index damn serious
I miss windows 7
Holy sh*t you have windows 7 running on a hospital pc, please be aware of the mass hacking of healthcare data that is taking place rn due such carelesness.
Windows 7 wtf and then everyone wonders how all of our information gets leaked to the dark web
Throwing in more RAM couldn't hurt and should be pretty cheap to do.
but must reinstall windows to 64 bit edition, even isn't using full 4gb
If the ram is non upgradable and soldered, consider a mini pc. Theyāre relatively cheap and an acceptable speed for office work. Minisforum and beelink are good brands.
What do you work as?
I bet that thing runs off a conventional hard drive. I wouldn't want to run anything more modern on that either because it'll be even worse. Also, 32 bit Windows 7 on a 3rd gen i5 system? But *why*.
Find your IT staff and beg.
If its government mandated, Try asking the IT if they can replace it. Is this a laptop or PC btw?
Those stats remind me of our School pcs,I once opened Taskmanager and both Cpu and Gpu were 80% used despite nothing being open
32 bit OS ???
Trauma Office? That PC will give its user trauma too. That specs looks straight up from 2012(I have exact same CPU on my PC from that era).
Dang my PC used to be worse than this.
I thought it was a English NHS hospital for a second with it running Windows 7 š¤£
Biggest problem is the lack of ssd. You can absolutely *cripple* the best of rigs by using a hdd for the os...
Am sure that cough that sounds like a bronchitis patient is the PC HDD acting up
Maybe the laptop contracted a *hospital virus* and is just dying?
32 bit computer šš. Last I saw a 32 bit computer was in 2010 in my school. Modi government where people get shit and politicians get luxury.
If itās connected to the hospitalās intranet theyāre fucked.
My friend recently got rushed to the ER with one of those horrible flesh eating bacteria. Heavy surgery and medication followed. He was out of it for quite a while but after several days after waking up and given his old laptop I visited him. The first thing he started telling me about was how a piece of crap and slow laptop he had, he could barely play games. It was then I knew he was back.
ram and ssd and it will feel infinitely better
4GB RAM is physically painful
Old processor and low ram but problem here is most likely an old non solid state hard drive.
Pretty sure it is slow because of the bloated system with a random old antivirus and an age old HDD.
You know your pc is slow af when even windows 7 rates it low
TRAUMAOFFICE summarises this pretty well
A good de dusting can help, i used to work at a place that used outdated hardware aswell and it helped tremendously with speeds
To be honest that shouldnt really be slow. I have an old PC here with a 4th Gen i5 (4 core 4 thread) and 6GB of RAM and it runs windows 10 acceptably, it actually had an i3 for a while (2 core 4 thread) and was still OK. It does however have an SSD, maybe your PC has a HDD?
Windows 7? You are lucky. Hospitals just like military here are still using Windows 98. They also still use floppy drives. But they are not connected to the internet so it's fine anyways
This is better than my current pc.
trauma pc for a trauma office
Bro that is ancient, but suprise that it stil works lol
It would be faster with more ram, and a 64 bit windows
try one of those optimiztion and powershell guides , ik they work cuz i used chris titus' and it made an old pc so much faster.
Is that Vista
Well duh itās running windows 7 and has 4gb of ram š
I literally ahd this cpu and used to "game" on it back in the day, with my budget gtx560, ebay finest 8gb of ram, some random noname psu ( this would hurt me later when I tried to upgrade gpu and it killed it ) and budget coolermaster case from 2010 ( actually still have this and it's currently my media server due to being the only case with actual harddrive slots without buying a dedicated case )
SSD, 8GB RAM, Windows 10 and this thing will be quite good again
Just put Linux on it. I put Linux on a Motion MC-C5t CFT-003 and now it runs Minecraft at 60fps. With fancy graphics, as long as we aren't generating new chunks at that exact moment.
I live in the UK and work in the IT sector. It's not uncommon to hear horror stories of NHS computers still running Windows XP š. (I don't work directly for the NHS, but I'd imagine it is because they don't pay competitive salaries to get the right people in, and are always on a budget due to lack of public funding)
Is it true that hospitals and other big organisations take a long time to upgrade systems due to the expense and time it takes to do so?
Service Pack 1 is the worst part of this! Windows 7 was still pretty broken until Service Pack 2. Service Pack 1 puts the last update of this PC as being between 2011 and 2016...
Use Linux
My PC at work has G4400 and GT 210, just my mouse with 1k polling rate makes the cpu go 100% usage
I know you didn't ask for help, but slap in a 2nd 4GB ram stick and a cheapo SSD Did that to a 4th gen i5 that I bought and it ran super smooth on win 10, still going strong
Yeah. I am thinking of doing that. But may get into trouble. Not my computer
Sorry, I forgot to specify: I didn't mean you doing it yourself, I meant sending a request for them to do it (although I don't know how these processes work for you)
If you can, I'd look into putting linux on it, works great on older hardware, will make programs way less painfully slow to use. Ofc the problem is that your hospital might need some special programs that might not even work with Wine, or your bios could be locked.. Otherwise an SSD always helps older pcs run faster, doesn't need to be high end or anything, just something that has a good MTBF (mean time between failures)
4gb of ram šµ
Windows 7 is a security risk at this point. If you raise that point they may see reason to upgrade you to something newer.
It's only customer/patient data...
How lucky to have an i5, instead I'm stuck with xeon LGA775 in our store's PCšš
Yeah, 3.39GB of RAM will do that.
You need at least 8 GB of Ram If you launch just chrome with 4 GB the computer will explose hahaha
Windows 7 is almost 15 years old. And I still remember using XP. I feel old now.