Iwork with applications like Blender, and, according to "Task Manager" and "Resource Monitor", windows uses less than 40% CPU (at most, with the option below) and less than 30% memory when I render a video. I wouldn't be interested in using the rest of the resources for any other thing while rendering. Is there a way to instruct windows to use its whole power?
If your rendering app is only single-threaded, then it can only use 100% of one CPU. So, for example,on a two-CPU machine it would show up as 50%. Windows can't make it use both CPUs because it's up to the app developer to break the task into multiple threads.
To make the compute-bound portion of video rendering go faster, you can buy a faster CPU, or buy a video card that your app can use for acceleration by doing some of the work in the GPU. Or get a different rendering app, one with better-implemented multithreading.
To make the I/O go faster, put the input, output, and temporary files on three different drives (not just drive letters. Different physical drives). Since the input files are normally the largest, and are also typically accessed in a random fashion if you're combining multiple inputs, put them on your fastest drive, an SSD if possible. The speed of the output drive won't matter much: The rate at which you can render video is a slow walk to any hard drive.
You specifically mentioned Blender as one of the programs you use. Blender is highly multithreaded when rendering a 3D scene. In the Render panel under Performance you can increase the number of threads used. By default it uses the same number of threads as cores your computer has which is usually the best. I only ever change this if I am needing to use my computer for other things while I render, in effect causing the condition you are asking about.
Are you 100% sure RDP is being restricted by IP at the firewall? My first impression would be that login attempts are being made to your server via RDP. You really need to check which ports are open and publicly accessible.
Use wail2ban. It's like fail2ban but for windows here is the link for the project. But it seems like the development has stopped for it. If I find any better alternatives to fail2ban, I will update my answer. In the meantime, definitely try wail2ban. It will temporarily block IP Addresses of failed login attempts after 5 failed attempts for 10 mins (the conditions, bantime etc can be changed). Don't forget to whitelist your own IP because by mistake if you enter your password wrong 5 times, you will get yourself banned for 10 mins (Default bantime set in wail2ban)
Last week I painted my living room a beautiful black color that completely transformed the space. And once I saw how good that looked, I had to continue into the kitchen. Ok, not the entire kitchen, just the trim work (full video here). Among that trim work, was a beautiful french door that was screaming to be painted. Painting windows and doors can be a logistical nightmare, but luckily the internet had the best hack.
I have a p8p67 LE motherboard. I want to disable secure boot so i can use HackBGRT to change my logo while booting. I already have windows 10 installed. HackBGRT requires you to have secure boot off. Secure boot is not showing in any of the sections of the BIOS. It should show it in the boot section.
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