{"id":1097,"date":"2005-03-17T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2005-03-17T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T08:23:12","slug":"black-viper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/17\/black-viper\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Viper"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first you might wonder about a site called Black Viper’s Web Site<\/a>. I suppose it’s better than Black Viper’s Home Page<\/i> or Welcome to Black Viper’s Home Page on the World Wide Web!!!<\/i>, but I digress.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem I have with my Dell Inspiron 600 is that it tends to run hot (check out I8kfanGUI<\/a> if you have a Dell laptop). Under load, the CPU can often reach up to 50 degrees Celsius before the fan kicks in. Heat can hamper performance and even damage your computer. I got myself a little laptop stand that has two built in fans, and that helps a bit–mostly by drawing heat away from the hard drive and memory compartments. <\/p>\n

But I still had problems with the CPU experiencing high loads and thus generating heat. I noticed that there were times when I wasn’t doing anything and yet 85-95% of the CPU would be used by a process called cisvc.exe. According to several sites, this was a Windows service, not Spyware or anything malicious. Of course, that doesn’t mean you necessarily want it running. <\/p>\n

That’s where Black Viper<\/a> comes in. Black Viper’s Service Configurations essentially lists the various Windows processes and services, explains what they do, and makes recommendations on whether you want them disabled or not. I suspected cisvc.exe was a completely useless process, but this confirmed that I could safely turn it off. Go ahead and take a peek at the list; you’d be surprised at the number of stupid things that are running at any given time.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: Using I8kfanGUI to override the automatic controls on your fans or Black Viper’s Service Configurations to muck around with Windows carries with it a small element of risk. Personally I think it’s negligible, but don’t come crying to me if you break something.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At first you might wonder about a site called Black Viper’s Web Site. I suppose it’s better than Black Viper’s Home Page or Welcome to Black Viper’s Home Page on the World Wide Web!!!, but I digress. The biggest problem I have with my Dell Inspiron 600 is that it tends to run hot (check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-hH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}