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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Sunday, January 15, 2023 13:53:00
    Anyone within broadcasting range of this message still with XP
    and using an SSD with the OS?

    Sofar, the experience is quite good, albiet is has barely been
    a week since the uprade with the SDD.

    My Thinkpad T60 was acquired with XP at the time - about 10 yrs
    ago. Since then, it has seen a lot of use, added programs and
    dependancy as my "production" machine. It has a modest 3GB ram
    installed, but that's the max for this T60.

    From other research, I've learned that the pagefile ought to be
    disabled inorder to prevent excessive writes to a pagefile
    (normally performed on a HDD). So, that is what I've done -
    disabled the pagefile allocation, and deleted the remnants of
    pagefile.sys on both the C and H partitions.

    I'm monitoring the RAM use with a small utility in the taskbar:
    MemInfo 3.43

    When the HDD was in place, the typical recommended size of the
    pagefile was about 1.5 x installed ram. But I limited it to
    about 3GB. The pagefile.sys rarely saw usage (based on the
    Last Modified date). But when it did see usage, I was
    certainly pushing it by being lazy to close programs that I
    really wasn't using.

    In all, I find the change to SSD satisfying so far. [1] I
    appreciate that the machine seems to crawl out of Hibernate a
    bit faster and smoother. [2] I am relieved that my 95% full C
    drive on the HDD data is successfully ported over to a larger
    139GB partition on the 1TB SSD. [3] Programs *do* seem to
    render onscreen faster. [4] Battery runtime seems to have
    extended a bit longer too. [5] The fan hardly ever runs, and
    only occassionaly; before, it was on ALL the time.


    --
    ../|ug


    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
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  • From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to August Abolins on Monday, January 16, 2023 10:26:58

    Hello August!

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

    From other research, I've learned that the pagefile ought to be
    disabled inorder to prevent excessive writes to a pagefile
    (normally performed on a HDD). So, that is what I've done -
    disabled the pagefile allocation, and deleted the remnants of
    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


    render onscreen faster. [4] Battery runtime seems to have
    extended a bit longer too. [5] The fan hardly ever runs, and
    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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  • From Real User@1:103/705 to Stephen Walsh on Friday, January 27, 2023 11:31:13
    Re: any XP + SSD users here?
    By: Stephen Walsh to August Abolins on Mon Jan 16 2023 10:26 am



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

    From other research, I've learned that the pagefile ought to be disabled inorder to prevent excessive writes to a pagefile
    (normally performed on a HDD). So, that is what I've done -
    disabled the pagefile allocation, and deleted the remnants of 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


    render onscreen faster. [4] Battery runtime seems to have
    extended a bit longer too. [5] The fan hardly ever runs, and
    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

    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.

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  • From Real User@1:103/705 to August Abolins on Friday, January 27, 2023 11:37:50
    Re: any XP + SSD users here?
    By: August Abolins to All on Sun Jan 15 2023 01:53 pm

    Also, I forgot. Clamwin:
    Click in the arrows to download them. https://www.cdlibre.org/consultar/catalogo/Utilidades_Antivirus.html

    A firewall for Windows XP:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/openfirewall/



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  • From August Abolins@1:396/45.29 to Real User on Sunday, January 29, 2023 09:55:00
    Hello Real User!

    Also, I forgot. Clamwin:
    Click in the arrows to download them. https://www.cdlibre.org/consultar/catalogo/Utilidades_Antivirus.html

    Haven't bothered with antiviri for my XP machine in years. I
    just run Spybot and SpywareBlaster from time to time.


    A firewall for Windows XP:
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/openfirewall/

    The mobile connection (ISP) has a firewall on their side, I
    presume.
    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.57
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