But I am not too sure I want to do this one:
Disable update of filesystem's "last access timestamps"
Thoughts.. anyone?
Have a look at SSD Tweaker: https://elpamsoft.com/
Their free edition already does some optimizing for ssd's under XP.
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..
.. No TRIM issues, since it's a SATA drive at heart.
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).
And, the T60 simply has a very pleasant keyboard to work with.
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.
The T43 was my personal favorite - [...] 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
August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Oh.. OK. That bodes a possibility for me then. But I'm going
to let things be as they are at the moment. My main progs are
responding as required and there no issues. I'll probably stick
with XP a while longer.
If you're handy with a screwdriver, they're easy to work
on. It's worth opening them up, blowing out all of the
dust from the nooks and crannies inside, replacing the
fan if it's making noise, and replacing the thermal paste
on the CPU.
Parts on eBay are cheap - I replaced the fan for around
$10, I've seen keyboards for under $30, and if you want to
put it back to original condition, there are screw cover
sets on eBay, so you can replace those little adhesive
covers over the visible screws.
Lenovo publishes a hardware maintenance manual for most of
their systems with the steps outlined clearly for most
replacements.
Now that the BBS is running in a virtual machine, I should
dust off my T60 and make it usable as a plain ol' laptop
again.
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