Originally Posted by
richarddd
FWIW, I'm not prepared to bake the laptop, but I ran Handbrake to encode a video file for 45 minutes, which generated a fair amount of heat and exhaust. No real change in internet speed (beyond the usual fluctuations), network speed or perceived browsing speed.
To me, that's a bit extreme but it is one way to simulate a heat scenario (don't know where [MENTION=179212]KRSW[/MENTION] works that would require that kind of test but good to know). As for your test, it's looking more like a software issue which would work out to digging into a few things (and lots of time consumed unfortunately)... Perfmon/Procmon and maybe some network captures is a guess.
Originally Posted by
HDQDD
Supporting legacy and obsolete SW in a controlled environment is one thing, but on users' laptops there are far more threat vectors (esp for old Windows versions).
Good Ole OS/2. Got my first intro to OS/2 and token ring networks when I worked at a Target store in the early 90s. Couldn't play Doom II on it, so I quickly moved on.
I still remember seeing ATMs with OS/2 error screens. For most of those companies, they were isolated (completely disconnected from any network) but there were one or two that I know of that couldn't be... luckily I wasn't the one who had to support them... would be concerned since if those machines failed, whole departments would be screwed.