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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Tue Jan 24 18:18:00 2023
    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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    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.57
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  • From Ryan Fantus@1:218/820 to August Abolins on Tue Jan 24 17:22:33 2023
    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.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Jan 25 07:55:00 2023
    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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    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.57
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