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   Stephen Walsh to August Abolins   
   any XP + SSD users here?   
   16 Jan 23 10:26:58   
   
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   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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