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VirtualLarry I have a different take on the Long-term install of Windows, either 7 or 10, please bear with me. IMHO the long-term install of Windows generally is 5-7 years or more. Now considering this lifespan, and little to moderate load (browsing+video viewing + word processing + worksheet +...

Does it not make sense to have the cache and temp folders on a separate HDD and not on a SSD? There are applications, Firefox is one which comes to my mind, which write massive amount of data less than 4KB in size. If we have the cache along with the temp and page file systems in a SSD then due...

Well the final update from my side. Running Linux on the machine did not help. The laptop still slowed down considerably, I could see that the speed was throttled upto some 200 Mhz for both the cores. Also Mrs was getting pretty annoyed with the laptop. Had to dispose of the laptop and get a new...

The laptop choice is pretty good. Before you do please ask yourself the following questions 1) Is the RAM and SDD replaceable? 2) Is the battery replaceable? Also consider how long are you willing to keep this laptop before buying a replacement.

In India the Dell XPS has only one option, i.e. with a 33 cms/13 inch screen. Unlike US where a 15 inch screen variant is also available. We have been stuck with the 13 inch one for a long time now in India. And considering the price point at which it is offered, it is surprising that even the...

Previously my laptop was set to "Portable/Laptop" power profile. I have changed it to "Home/Office Desk". I will update this thread with more details. Using a different OS, I will try to install Pepermint Linux or Lubuntu or any other Linux OS on a pen drive and try to use that and see the...

Please find the screen shot of HWMonitor along with Task Manager. HWMonitor along with Windows Task Manager after 5 minutes of booting of laptop. 4 applications were opened over here, Mozilla Firefox, MS Paint, Windows Task Manager, HW Monitor 1.29 HW Monitor along with Task Manager after 10...

Were you able to figure out and solve the double disk issue?

Do you plan to reuse your existing Desktop for NAS? If yes what is the OS that you plan to use?

The reason that I am so insistent on this is that I plan to convert this old laptop to a home cum media cum NAS server running Linux. And I want it to be able to sustain a particular amount of load. So I need to fix this CPU slowness and possibly the heat issue too. I believe that they are inter...

My point of contention is that the CPU frequency in real time as reported by HW Monitor or Core Temp never goes above 1017 MHz once the temperature crosses 60 degree mark. Even under heavy load. Also the bottom of my Laptop is hot to touch after 30 minutes of work. You are possibly right that...

My two cents to this. My company has given me a Laptop with 16gb of RAM. I use it to open Outlook and Lync/Skype, 20-25 Tabs of Chrome, Word Processor, Excel and other servers+Tools. I have seen that even at the end of the day or peak of the day RAM utilisation never crosses 10 gb. Neither is my...

As suggested I will take a screen shot of Laptop when the CPU is being throttled and also of the Task Manager and post it soon.

If you look at image that I have uploaded of HW Monitor under the heading "After opening of Firefox Browser, Word Processor, Paint and HW Monitor" there the "Max" value of Temperature is "51-53". At the same time under the Clocks and the Column "Value" the reading is of 1663Mhz. Now look at the...

HW Monitor at the bootup of the Laptop After Opening of Firefox browser, Word Processor, Paint and HW Monitor 10-15 minutes after running all the applications together.