On 05/03/2020 13:16, alan_m wrote:
On 04/03/2020 11:45, John Rumm wrote:

Now swap out the HDD and replace with the SSD. That should get you a
system that will now likely be fast enough to use well enough to
optimise it a bit further.

In my experience a ssd makes very little difference to the speed of
windows, however in the past I've probably already optismed Windows for
performance rather than looks.


Which windows? And how do you define "speed of windows"?

I ask since its totally at odds with my experience in most cases - at
least for machines that are not crippled by lack of CPU power, or say
running the Win 7 Aero interface on stuff without the GPU oomph required.

I have found that anything typically Core2Duo/Win 7 or later will get a
substantial boost in speed on an SSD connected via a 6GB/sec SATA
interface. Applications that would take 20 secs to start from a HDD,
will usually load in 1 to 2 secs. Boots from cold to responsive that
used to take 5 mins down to 30 secs etc.

By way of example, I had a customer's 6 year old i3 box "on the shelf",
and they needed a hack gash machine for occasional office use. So I said
I would "refresh" it to be useable. I booted the thing and it took
*forever* to get started. Just uninstalling 4 or 5 unwanted bits of
software, and doing a disk clean up took over an hour. I then cloned it
onto a s/h SSD, and swapped the drives to then started an upgrade to 10
and do the rest of the setup. From the point it had the SSD in it, it
was like using a totally different machine. By the end it was quite
useable even for someone like me who detests slow machines.

Some real time activities of virus checkers can really slow down a
machine especially those for the Norton/Mcafee stables which i now
regard as just as bad as a virus itself.

There have been times where most AV programs have had a significant
impact, although in recent times the system load seems to have deceased
quite substantially for most of them.



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Cheers,

John.

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