Hello! Don't be fooled by the title!
Running PC-DMIS 2013 MR1 SP5
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So I'd like to lodge a complaint!
Just kidding but I do have questions to make my programming experience a little easier.
I am the only one who programs the CMM. The way management sees it, a single person cost the company more than a whole department. They
really don't like throwing money at me like I'm asking them to, but hear me out!
All I'm looking for is a decent computer running x64, preferably windows 10 but definitely not 8, 12 Gb of RAM, and shoot, the graphics card we have (NVIDIA Quadro 600) should be good enough!
But my requests are put on the back burner, as usual.
Fine.
But it's really causing some problems!!!
The CMM likes to crash with the "HSI Unknown Motion Error" Or "Machine Error" or whatever. Alright, hit play (enter) and it'll go like nothing happened. Okay... Fine!
But I got a new one, it said something along the lines (I didn't get a screenshot unfortunately) of "This process could not be completed because the program is waiting for another process to complete".
I've never seen this before! (We recently got a new AV, skyrockets memory usage, approx. 75% usage when idle!) I would imagine this to be the culprit.
I feel like it would be an easier sell to say hey boss, I need a new PC, versus hey boss, the entire company infrastructure needs to shut down for a day so we can get new anti virus again, because this one
sucks!
On that note...
Any tips on making the CMM PC more memory-friendly? I would love to just install a
really lite version of Windows (like IoT or something) and have PC-DMIS on there and that's it. Then the memory isn't getting eaten up by background processes and things I'm not using on there anyway.
I recently stumbled upon a post where I could more or less completely strip down Widnwos to its bare essentials and make everything faster, like disabling Aero themes and such.
Any good ways to get the upgrades I'm looking for? I'm not very persuasive since I'm the only one here!
