Hedges
I See Electromagnetic Fields!
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Makes more sense to preserve old drive and start with a fresh one.
A colleague configured his PC so all temporary internet files went to RAM "disk".
Microsoft updates pushed virtually every day, I understand is the biggest thrasher and fragmenter of disk.
The browsers stopped getting updated for XP. Pages took minutes to load (not talking video, unless that was in force-fed advertisements.)
If I disabled Java, it was much more usable. But for some reason web pages now require Java to have drop-down menus, so they didn't function.
I do have XP on an old Precision workstation, handy for some inverter support.
The 4k screen on my primary Win 10 Precision laptop was a problem, because Sunny Explorer (and some name brand CAD) end up with menus small enough to fit on a pin head. But Win 10 shoehorned on another 20 year old Precision is usable.
A colleague configured his PC so all temporary internet files went to RAM "disk".
Microsoft updates pushed virtually every day, I understand is the biggest thrasher and fragmenter of disk.
The browsers stopped getting updated for XP. Pages took minutes to load (not talking video, unless that was in force-fed advertisements.)
If I disabled Java, it was much more usable. But for some reason web pages now require Java to have drop-down menus, so they didn't function.
I do have XP on an old Precision workstation, handy for some inverter support.
The 4k screen on my primary Win 10 Precision laptop was a problem, because Sunny Explorer (and some name brand CAD) end up with menus small enough to fit on a pin head. But Win 10 shoehorned on another 20 year old Precision is usable.
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