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Hello Wilfred!

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

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

 WvV> 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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