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.


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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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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.

-- Unix junkie --

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/



-- Unix junkie --

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.
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