Subj : any XP + SSD users here?
To : Stephen Walsh
From : Real User
Date : Fri Jan 27 2023 11:31 am
Re: any XP + SSD users here?
By: Stephen Walsh to August Abolins on Mon Jan 16 2023 10:26 am
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> 15 Jan 23 13:53, you wrote to all:
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> AA> From other research, I've learned that the pagefile ought to be
> AA> disabled inorder to prevent excessive writes to a pagefile
> AA> (normally performed on a HDD). So, that is what I've done -
> AA> disabled the pagefile allocation, and deleted the remnants of
> AA> pagefile.sys on both the C and H partitions.
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> Good move. Also to note *NEVER* defragment the drive under XP. That will
> kill the drive. XP dosn't know what a SSD is.
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> What you can do though is boot to a linux cd/iso and drop to command line
> and then run (If they are in the base cd/iso image)
> the fstrim command:
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> ie:
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> sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> sudo fstrim -v /mnt
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>
> AA> render onscreen faster. [4] Battery runtime seems to have
> AA> extended a bit longer too. [5] The fan hardly ever runs, and
> AA> only occassionaly; before, it was on ALL the time.
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> Not having to spin a HD, and now only the moving parts are the fans will
> extend the battery.
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> Stephen
Not a Windows user, but you have both Retrozilla and Mypal browsers out there.
Get Clamwin as the antivirus, it may help you. And, maybe, some PF port for Windows as a firewall.
