Windows Server 2008 R2 - Workstation Tips, Tricks and Tweaks

AsciiWolf · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:56 pm

Kiske wrote:

rmxcat, yeah correct! THeres no x64 adobe flash plugin, and that makes me sick

64bit plugin need 64bit web-browser... And, afaik, there's officially no 64bit Firefox nor Opera (and probably nor Chrome) for 64bit Windows...

Indrek · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:41 pm

For Firefox, the best you can get are unofficial x64 builds:
http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Firefox:Download
Or you can of course grab the source and compile it yourself.

Chrome should also be (largely) open-source, but with Opera or Safari I think you're pretty much stuck with 32-bit.

rmxcat · **Joined:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:32 pm **Posts:** 28

there is 64 bit IE8 and I WOULD LOVE TO USE IT, but adobe is a party pooper.

JingoFresh · **Joined:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:01 am **Posts:** 127

rmxcat wrote:

What sites do you have open JF?? wow that's the smallest ram usage for FF I've seen.

Hi RC

I had open this forum, one youtube video, a bank site that uses java, and the rest were mostly news sites or the such, with lots of flash and whatever.

This is with the browser being open for many, many hours and retaining all history and such.

Really, FF does not deserve the bad rep. Use the latest build, don't use any unnecessary plugs, and its extrmely fast.

It won't load as fast as IE or Chrome, but once you have it open there is no difference.

The Minesweeper builds are still considered unstable, although I agree there should be a supported 64bit version by now.

rmxcat · **Joined:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:32 pm **Posts:** 28

what EXACT BUILD???

and also are you uisng ABP or any noscript or cookie handling addons? ABP greatly greatly reduces the load on your system with all those nasty flash ads going bye bye!

to the person who started the flash ad craze---you suck and you unleased a monster. hope you are happy whereever you are.

JingoFresh · **Joined:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:01 am **Posts:** 127

Just a note, but I find using caps for emphasis quite rude, as it doesn't make anything clearer and can come across as condescending....IMO...

I said I am using the latest, which is 3.6.2

No, I am not using the addons you refer to or any addons.

There really is no issue with FF, they fixed it ages ago but the reputation still hangs around.

halladayrules · **Joined:** Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:56 am **Posts:** 554

Kiske wrote:

Lal, my first computer was equiped with Windows ME

So it seems Windows 2008 R2 is working well on my laptop. Watching movies, play games - no complaints about it. But theres still something, that i want to do. With firefox running(4 tabs atm) system uses 550-560MB of RAM. I want to make that number *if its possible* lower. I have tweaked services already, tweaked some processes, still cant figure out what to do next x.x

Install the Windows System Resource Manager feature in Server Manager. This program allows you to allocate processor and memory resources to applications, users, and other settings.

Create a "Resource Allocation Policy"

Set the Working Set Maximum and Committed Memory Maximum limits to a more user-friendly acceptable window. Make sure you set the policy to "log an event message" and no "stop the application" when the memory limit is exceeded. Don't set your limit too low because it will constantly page. You can do it but its not practical. Set a reasonable memory window like 200MB. I set a 20MB memory limit for firefox.exe application just to show you how it works:

P.S - Make sure you right-click on your RAP and select "manage" or else the policy won't go into effect.

ambok22 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:52 am **Posts:** 1

I'm hoping there will be a Web edition of R2, and that it will offer similar capability of installing a very clean build environment that offers similar performance and relieability advantages with DirectX 10-11

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