Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-25 Thread DSinc
Steve, Yes, I did read your share of 05/18. I do read your 8 steps. But, your entire share is on a level that I do not share. So, I still read it to decode (as best I can) it for my future tasks. Yes, I can mechanically install an SSD in my 'test' machine. Yes, I can electrically connect the S

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Duncan, Did you read my email on how I fixed this? Sent to the list last weekend. Things are going fine for a week now and I do have stuff that is starting very fast. My system used to take a long time from password prompt to usable desktop. There was a lot going on in the background whic

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-25 Thread DSinc
Thanks Steve, You focus on mymain quibble of conversion to SSD. I know that windows 'likes toboot' from C:\windows (using boot.ini, ntldr, and ?). Yes, that is as far as I know ATM. So, I am stuck with OP's ideas to learn "truly" what is going on. NO! I do not expect M$ to help; so I continue

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Tomporowski Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 5:48 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed. I have

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-18 Thread DSinc
the quiet is scary :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 5:48 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make y

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Weeden
ycling through all the updates and getting the drivers up to date took a >>> while, but no real problems. >>> >>> It is much faster on boot and the quiet is scary :) >>> >>> -Original Message----- >>> From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardw

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-18 Thread DSinc
ists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed. I have found out why. It began on Patch Tuesday. 4 of 6 patche

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed. I have found out why. It began on Patch Tuesday. 4 of 6 patches failed. Wind

Re: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-17 Thread Dave Gibney
hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed. I have found out why. It began on Patch Tuesday. 4 of 6 patc

[H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

2013-05-17 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed. I have found out why. It began on Patch Tuesday. 4 of 6 patches failed. Windows update threw some errors, but as I had a design review coming up at work, I wa