In addition to disabling the pagefile system, I disabled a
couple more things:


Disable Background auto-layout:

Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Op
timalLayout Value Name: EnableAutoLayout Type: REG_DWORD Value:
0


Disable Prefetch

Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters Name:
EnablePrefetcher Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0


The above made perfect sense.


But I am not too sure I want to do this one:


Disable update of filesystem's "last access timestamps"

"Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
Name: NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1


All of the above are from this article:

https://ckirbach.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/how-to-optimise- windows-xp-for-ssd-solid-state-disk-operation/

Thoughts.. anyone?

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But I am not too sure I want to do this one:

Disable update of filesystem's "last access timestamps"

Without reading through it (am posting from mobile) what I would tell you is that my experience tuning HD performance in linux is consistent with disabling these updates, and only updating on writes.

In other words, if this setting pertains to reading files, it probably isn't super valuable to update your filesystem on those events and disabling it will extend the life of your hd.

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Hi August,

On 2023-01-24 18:18:00, you wrote to All:

Thoughts.. anyone?

Have a look at SSD Tweaker: https://elpamsoft.com/

Their free edition already does some optimizing for ssd's under XP.


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred!

** On Wednesday 25.01.23 - 08:56, you wrote:

Have a look at SSD Tweaker: https://elpamsoft.com/

Their free edition already does some optimizing for ssd's under XP.

Thanks for the info. I do believe that I saw a reference to
that during my exploration of XP+SSD environments in
commentaries by other people.

I checked it out. It basically talks about the various
optimizations that I have already performed manually.

I DL'd it and installed it to look around. It appears that it
is incapable of sending the TRIM command to the SSD if
operating under XP. Only Win7+ is supported. So, wrt to TRIM,
it looks like it doesn't really do anything except wrap any
query results into its own reporting style if the data is
available by the OS.

The optimization summary and explanations are pretty good
though. But, as I said, I think I took care of the most
significant services that would normally write to a HDD,
manually.

One of my last tweaks I did manually was turn off "last
accessed date". I find little need to have that. The "last
modified date" is more important. However, before I disabled
"last accessed date", I learned that XP was indeed updating
that for a variety of files all the time. My guess is that is
because of the "fast Indexing" scheme or something. So,
perhaps, indexing is probably something else that can be turned
off - as the SSD Tweaker product also suggests.

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August Abolins wrote to Wilfred van Velzen <=-

Have a look at SSD Tweaker: https://elpamsoft.com/

Their free edition already does some optimizing for ssd's under XP.

Thanks for the info. I do believe that I saw a reference to
that during my exploration of XP+SSD environments in
commentaries by other people.

You could always punt on the SSD question and get a hybrid SATA drive
for use under XP. I bought dozens of them from 2011 to 2014 or so. I
worked for a company that was looking to eke out a couple more years out
of laptops, and replacing a plain SATA drive with a hybrid drive gave us
a nice little speed boost that made an older system more appealing.

Hybrid SATA drives slap a big flash cache (4-8 GB) onto a drive. When
you boot up, it boots at spinning drive speeds, but once you start
loading apps, they get loaded into the cache and run from the cache at
SSD speeds. No TRIM issues, since it's a SATA drive at heart.




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Hello Kurt!

** On Wednesday 25.01.23 - 06:44, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

You could always punt on the SSD question and get a hybrid
SATA drive for use under XP. I bought dozens of them from
2011 to 2014 or so..

Haven't seen those on the market or heard anyone still using
them. SSHD seems to be the descriptive term to use to find
them. But, I don't see 1TB 2.5" sizes. Anyway.. I've commited
to my 1TB SSD and I'll stick with it, for now.

.. No TRIM issues, since it's a SATA drive at heart.

From my readings about TRIM, it's nice to have, but not overly
critical since the onboard GC (garbage collection) on recent
SSDs are pretty good, and there is often a large portion of
extra storage (not reported to the user) that is used for the
extra moving of blocks. And.. the cells can withstand more
write cycles than most people need in their lifetime.

I don't think I'm the last holdout on XP out there (I am more
skeptical of installing Win7 on my T60 Thinkpad since the RAM
limit has been maximized at 3GB only). I need to stick with
key MS programs. And, the T60 simply has a very pleasant
keyboard to work with.

The yoo-toob has many examples of people successfully giving
their vintage laptops w/XP a new life with SSDs. If it was a
bad combination, I think there would have been plenty of horror
stories by now - but there doesn't seem to be.


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Re: XP + SSD
By: August Abolins to Kurt Weiske on Wed Jan 25 2023 05:48 pm

I don't think I'm the last holdout on XP out there (I am more
skeptical of installing Win7 on my T60 Thinkpad since the RAM
limit has been maximized at 3GB only).

I ran Windows 7 and later Windows 10 (32-bit, both) on a T60 running my BBS. It certainly ran decently enough, running the BBS, WinAMP, shoutcast, the occasional web browser and libreoffice in 3GB of RAM.

And, the T60 simply has a very pleasant keyboard to work with.

The T43 was my personal favorite - a little sleeker than the T60, but only a single-core and 2GB of RAM though. I ran one with a PATA SSD for some time as a part-time system - it was fun to go into a coffee shop full of wide-screen shiny silver MacBooks and open up this black laptop covered in stickers with a 4:3 screen.

https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/thinkpad.jpg

I had a USB network card that I used for pentesting that had a very obvious external antenna if I wanted more sideways glances.
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