Hello.
I didn't know about the side-effect of disabling search
indexing. I used to always disable it on older systems, but I
haven't bothered in a while. If I have to use search, my chances
of actually finding the item are probably pretty slim anyway.
You may have a point on the write caching. I'll have to give
that one a try.
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On 2/5/2019 03:19, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi Chris,
I have indeed disabled Prefetch and
Superfetch.
I saw another article on TomsHardware
about it, but I disagree with them on one point. They say
disable search indexing. If you do that, you have to
manually press the submit search button and it’s tedious, so
I re-enabled that, but Superfetch and Prefetch are gone from
my systems.
I also recommend right clicking the
SSD, going to Properties and disabling write caching, since
this again, takes up more RAM than necessary. This is on
the Policies tab. Caching is pretty much pointless on an
SSD.
All the best
Steve
Here is an article on it:
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-superfetch-prefetch-ssd
They claim that windows will do this automatically if you
install an ssd. I've installed three ssd's and windows 10
doesn't seem to do it automatically. It might be different
with a new install of windows, but if you are putting your old
operating system onto your new ssd, you should probably at
least check to make sure prefetch and superfetch are disabled.
On 2/4/2019 08:23, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi,
I don’t believe it does. Where do you
go to turn those off?
Thanks.
All the best
Steve
Ideally, superfetch and prefetch should be turned off in
the registry after the operating system is moved to a ssd,
I don't believe Macrium Reflect will do that for you., if
it does that would save some steps.
On 2/4/2019 03:02, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi,
No need to monkey with the
registry, just use Macrium Reflect which is free, and
image the drive. I put an SSD into my old laptop the
other day, and the speed is amazing.
All the best
Steve
Actually, if the person doing the swapping knows what
they are about, the windows, programs and all the data
can be easily copied. All one need do is to change a
couple of registry settings so windows treats the ssd
properly once the new drive is installed. You make
good points on the ease of dismantling the machine.
If I was him, I wouldn't even bother with best buy,
find a local place that works on stuff and has a good
reputation, you're more likely to get someone who will
do the job right and put in the necessary time.
On 2/3/2019 17:15, Sieghard
Weitzel wrote:
That is a fairly generic 1Tb
2.5 inch laptop hard drive with 32Mb of Cache and
5,400 RPM (revolutions per minute).
I can see that after a little
over 3 years this is not going to be the fastest,
as I said before and now that it is confirmed you
have a regular hard drive, you would get the most
speed boost out of replacing this with a solid
state drive. You would have to see how much space
of this you use, but you would most likely want a
512Gb SSD, it is half the size of your current
drive, but as far as what you get for your buck
this is pretty much where the sweet spot is now.
If you go to 240Gb you may run into space issues
and you only save maybe $30 or $40, but if you
want a 1Tb SSD (same size as what you have now)
you’ll pay double of what a 512Gb costs, prices
are constantly coming down and in a couple of
years you’ll probably be able to buy a 1Tb for the
same price as a 512Gb now, but that won’t do you
any good. Of course you can just put up with
longer boot times and loading times of
applications and keep it the way it is. You would
have to check anyways if this laptop you have can
even be easily opened up, some of these
convertible tablets/laptop thingies are sealed and
changing components is not easily possible. Then
of course there is the consideration whether it is
worth putting $100 or $150 into it, I assume you
can’t switch the drives out yourself and I have no
idea what a place like Best Buy would charge for
that. Keep in mind that you want to make sure you
have a good backup of all your data and that
whatever applications you have are available for a
fresh install either by download or that you have
the installers on a USB stick. If you change
drives you start out with a fresh install of
Windows which if you are comfortable with it you
can do yourself with Narrator, then you have to
install Jaws or NVDA (whatever you use) and after
that install things like Chrome and/or Firefox,
Office, iTunes or whatever applications you use.
Depending on how much user data you have on your
current hard drive you could copy it to an
external hard drive first. You can get a 1Tb
external drive in the States probably for $50 or
$60 so not such a big expense and it is something
you then have and can continue to use.
As for David’s comments on RAM,
whether you buy a laptop or other computer, they
do come with whatever RAM is supported by your
CPU. You could not put DDR 4 RAM into your laptop
which I am quite sure has and can only take DDR 3
RAM. If you have a custom system built you want to
of course make sure you get the best RAM possible
for your processor and motherboard at the time,
beyond that RAM speed is not really a big issue
and how much cache a hard drive has is also a lot
less important than whether you have a hard drive
or SSD.
Regards,
Sieghard
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Michael Munn
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 1:00 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Processor speed
Here is the information about
the drive of this laptop:
HGST HTS541010A7E630
I got this from
the disc and Drive section of the
device manager.
Michael Munn
Member:
Virginia Association of Blind
students
Member:
Maryland Association of Blind
Students
Students of:
Hadley Institute of the Blind
along the lines of
talking about the processer speed, it also
should be noted about the size of the hard
drive cache, also you can't forget that
the faster the processer speed the ram
speed might have something to do with the
speed as well. as an example the faster
processers of today need the faster ram
like ddr4 ram if i'm not mistaken.
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Message-----
From: Feliciano G
Sent: Feb 2, 2019 5:15 PM
To: "main@jfw.groups.io"
Subject: Re: Processor speed
Hi Michael,
the start up speed
is due to the type of hard drive that
you have. There are hard drives with
lower revolutions per minute and
higher revolutions per minute and
then there are solid state drives
which are quicker. There are settings
that can be adjusted to change how
your windows machine loads.
On Feb 2, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Chris
Hill <hillco@...>
wrote:
Well, don't give up. If the
slow machine doesn't have one
(most likely) you should
consider having a solid state
drive (ssd) installed. Your
boot speed will go up a lot.
You can often get away with a
much smaller drive if you aren't
using all of what you have. I
went from a 1tb drive on my old
laptop to a 512gb ssd. At that
time, 1tb was more than i wanted
to spend. It helped a lot. I
eventually took that drive and
put it in my wife's machine and
gave up on my 8-year-old laptop,
it was way slower than what you
have.
Good luck.
CH
On 2/2/2019
16:49, Michael Munn wrote:
Thanks
all. Yes the start up time
really drive's me crazy. I
used two different
computers, one of them is
faster then the other. I
just want to know the
information of the speed.
Thanks
for answering my question.
Michael
Munn
Michael
Munn
Member:
Virginia
Association of
Blind students
Member:
Maryland
Association of
Blind Students
Students
of: Hadley
Institute of
the Blind
If applications are
running more slowly than
you would like, it would
be best to find out why
before investing in any
new hardware.
If I recall correctly,
Performance Monitor will
show you how much your
CPU, memory and storage
are being used over
time. Some of the same
information is in Task
Manager as well.
On
2/2/19 2:06 PM,
Michael Munn wrote:
Thanks
so much for the
detail. i really
appreciate it.
I
got this laptop in
DECEMBER of 2015.
It's the current
generation at that
point.
I
just want to know
about the
information of the
laptop that I'm
currently using.
Michael
Munn
Member:
Virginia
Association of
Blind students
Member:
Maryland
Association of
Blind Students
Students
of: Hadley
Institute of
the Blind
On
Sat, Feb 2, 2019
at 1:13 PM
Sieghard Weitzel
<sieghard@...> wrote:
And
if you are
gaming over
the internet
and you are on
a 6 Mbps ADSL
connection a
super-fast
computer with
the latest
processor and
32Gb of RAM
won’t do you
much good.
Computers are
a system and
they are made
up of various
components and
they all play
a roll. To
again use my
car example
from the
previous
email, the
high-end
Mercedes or
BMW which can
go 160 or 180
miles an hour
won’t do you
much good if
you are taking
the Road to
Hanna on Maui.
For those who
don’t know of
it, it’s a
2-lane highway
which over a
distance of
just over 64
miles has
approximately
620 curves
many of them
hairpin turns
and you can
rarely go
faster than 30
miles an hour.
In this case
that highway
would be
equivalent to
your internet
connection
speed. I can
take my 7-year
old laptop on
my 275 Mbps
fiber
connection and
download
things a lot
faster than
somebody with
the latest 9th
generation I7
system on a
much slower
connection.
all
depends on
what you are
doing. If
you're into
gaming on line
real-time over
the internet,
then you need
one heck of a
lot more speed
and memory. So
it really
depends.
You're better
off than if
you still had
an Apple II+
with 64k RAM
and a 6052
processor.
What
I'm saying is
that this is a
very
open-ended
question, and
your answers
will vary. For
now, you have
plenty, and
actually more
memory than I
have, but then
I'm a senior
citizen.
Dave
Oregonite,
woodworker,
Engineer,
Musician, and
Pioneer
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Original
Message -----
Sent:
Saturday,
February 02,
2019 09:56
Hi
all, this is
Michael.
Today
I checked the
processor of
my HP laptop
and here is
the
information I
get for the
processor:
Processor:
Intel(R)
Core(TM)
i5-5200U CPU @
2.20GHz 2.20
GHz
Installed
memory (RAM):
8.00 GB
System
type: 64-bit
Operating
System,
x64-based
processor
Is
2.2 GHZ
enough? and
how fast can
it run?
All
comment and
answers are
greatly
appreciate it.
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