Ok, if you are running a laptop, you must have noticed that the more things you have running, the faster your battery goes.
I have been screwing around allot lately (learning) and I have found out quite a bit.
Irrelevant stuffs.
* If your MineCraft dedicated server goes down for over 5 min, you will get a mass amount of texts worrying about the end of the world.
* Firefox uses almost no memory next to chrome
Ok what I really was going to say.
The best way to check what is taking up power on you computer is by checking taskmanger (crtl, shift, and esc) The set "Memory (Private Working Set)" to be from most to least.
You may notice that windows explorer is in the top 5!
For me it generally takes 60,000K memory thingy (for fun terms
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We all need to browse windows, but that is a heck load if you are just internet browsing, watching a movie, playing a game, or pretty much anything. I have one that will save 50,000K.
Solution
1. Open command prompt (you could alternately make a script to run a batch file once an hour).
2. open task manager.
3. end the process for explorer.exe
4. OMG EVERYTHING IS GONE (kinda calming isn't it?)
5. In Command Prompt type "explorer.exe /D C:\Windows"
6. Your desktop hasn't returned but you may now browse your computer as you wish.
Sidenote: if you screw up and exit out of both cmd and windows explorer, don't fret, just log out and log back in.
Another sidenote: Don't do this if you want more than 6 windows open, as they are separate processes now.
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. I still haven't run for 48 hours to report if it will cause issues