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- Nairn0
I cleaned out a metric shit ton of temp files, redundant registry entries, shortcuts, yadda yadda earlier - clawed back many Gigas from my SSD bootdrive (fuck you in particular, Adobe) and now my machine feels like it's running slower.
Why?
GFY.
- Spotlight may be re-indexing the drive. That can take a whileGnash
- Je suis pcNairn
- De-frag the drive?Continuity
- Is that even still a thing, de-fragging? I haven't used a Windows machine in almost 20 years!Continuity
- I don't think you need to defrag SSDs, I think that sort of thing's handled by the disk controller directly. Not sure why I think that - best check!Nairn
- Of course - defragging SSDs uses up their write cycles, so is not a wonderful idea.Nairn
- Ah.
Well.
That's all I've got for you, then. :\Continuity - You shouldn't have played in your registry, you can't possibly know that you had redundant entries without knowing every detail of every software on your pc.zarkonite
- and if you used a third party utility to tell you that, there's your problem =) Did you use the built-in free up space tool?zarkonite
- it's back to normal now. I know, roughly, what I'm doing. Sometimes.Nairn
- https://windirstat.n… FTWNairn
- hehe I use windir as well, but the registry thing is really complicated. Even if you have duplicates, they may be needed because of how the API calls are made.zarkonite
- I use like a half dozen programs on this computer, none of which I fucked with. Old computer. Lots of legacy cruft. Now gone.Nairn
- Sounds like a clean install would have been possible if all you have to do is re-install 6 programs.zarkonite
- Yes, yes and yes. For various dull reasons, I've not got a worthy stand-in for it, and as it's a machine controller I can't afford the downtime.Nairn
- It's always good to have a single point of failure in business, I find.Nairn
- The purpose of cache is to speed things updrgs
- backup, format, install********