Subj : any XP + SSD users here?
To   : August Abolins
From : Stephen Walsh
Date : Mon Jan 16 2023 10:26:58


Hello August!

15 Jan 23 13:53, you wrote to all:

 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.

Good move. Also to note *NEVER* defragment the drive under XP. That will kill the drive. XP dosn't know what a SSD is.

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:

ie:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
sudo fstrim -v /mnt


 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.

Not having to spin a HD, and now only the moving parts are the fans will extend the battery.



Stephen


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