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Epic comment:

If you like Ceres you are gonna love Saturn's moon Mimas :

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/199673-second-patch-for-ongoing-840-evo-ssd-performance-issues-being-prepped-by-samsung http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Samsung-840-EVO-Performance-Restoring-Firmware-Only-Partially-Effective

Just found this 'interesting' piece of info: Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality

They released a firmware update and a 'performance restoration tool' last october, but it doesn't really cure the problem, just restores top performance for a while. After ~3 months read speeds go south again. The same temporary restoration can be achieved using My Defrag or Diskfresh every ~3 months or less. But none of these are real cures, just botches that add writes and eat away at SSD longevity (which is already low for TLC flash). With superb timing I got a 120GB 840 EVO just a month or so before the bug was 'discovered'. Right after applying the firmware update and "restoration tool" last october, 465 MB/s: About three months later, on February 9 read speeds had dropped to 282 MB/s (SATA II levels): Then inmediately after My Defrag, 469 MB/s again: Something is very wrong with a SSD when you have to DEFRAG it periodically to prevent it from becoming a UDMA-33 slug. After this experience I'm not touching any TLC SSD with a ten-pole foot.

That wouldn't help at all. It's a bug only detected (to my knowledge) in Samsung 840 (plain 840, non-EVO, non-Pro) and Samsung 840 EVO SSDs. Quite probably related to their TLC flash (as opposed to SLC or MLC). The whistleblowing thread: http://www.overclock.net/t/1507897/samsung-840-evo-read-speed-drops-on-old-written-data-in-the-drive Tons of evidence: http://www.overclock.net/t/1512915/read-speeds-dropping-dramatically-on-older-files-benchmarks-needed-to-confirm-affected-ssds

Just in case you weren't aware: http://techreport.com/review/27727/some-840-evos-still-vulnerable-to-read-speed-slowdowns After ~3 months read speeds begin going south, ultimately reaching good ole UDMA-33 levels :

Thanks for your epic comments Formfiller . You can bet on it . Even though that makes me "worse than scum".

Almost there. BTW couple days ago New Horizons set a new record for farthest away ever spacecraft mid-course correction, 4.83 billion kilometers/3 billion miles or about 4 light hours from Earth.

^ That's sound advice. Even the smaller secondary caps in a PSU can store quite a bit of energy if not discharged: Not to mention the bulk caps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC6Va8nLVS0

Might be Superfetch doing its stuff?

In the Wiki article about ReFS there is this epic line that sounds like quoted from a Marx Brothers' movie:

Yep. What's the problem? · · · · · · · · · · http://www.trishtech.com/2010/06/pin-a-program-to-start-menu-in-windows-xp/ And after a bit of tinkering we can pin folders too: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-pin-to-start-menu-for-folders-in-windows-vista-xp/

What I'd do: - Untick 'Internet' in 'Customize Start Menu' > 'General'. - (If necessary) Right click on that IE shortcut icon in the Start Menu and select 'Unpin from Start Menu' or 'Remove from this list'. - Then right click on any Firefox shortcut icon and select 'Pin to the Start Menu'. Done.

While we're at it and just for the record I'd like to paste here the best info about DisablePagingExecutive and LargeSystemCache that I've ever found in my travels:

I concur :

This Neowin commenter touches it with a needle:

In case it's a driver problem, the Nvidia drivers that work best with W98SE on my dinosaur PIII with a 6200 AGP are the 77.72 .

Who'd have thought, watching the Longhorn betas a decade ago, that we'd end up here? And yet here we are.

Beyond surreal. I can't help but keep thinking that all that is happening after Se7en has to be some kind of cosmological prank. At this rate of Flat (encephalogram) Design I guess the icon set for W11 will be something of this sort:

Yeah I've been fiddling a bit and although sensu stricto ... "... A hard fault happens when the address in memory of part of a program is no longer in main memory, but has been instead swapped out to the paging file, making the system go looking for it on the hard disk ..." ... Se7en's ResMon will show activity in the 'Hard Fault' graph even when all paging files are disabled and no pagefile exists. I think what we're seeing most or all of the time in that graph are as a matter of fact Cache Faults: "Application-related file cache read misses" ... "when pages sought in the cache are not found there and have to be obtained elsewhere in memory or on the disk ...". ^ Just opening three non-cached applications with ~15GB of free memory and pagefile disabled Windows' Task Manager and Resource Monitor have a tradition of misleading ambiguity, just remember the 'PF Usage' and 'Page File Usage History' bullcrap in XP's Task Manager.

The same than in Vesta, just impact-related geological stuff.

Yes, perfectly normal the first time you load up a program, when it has to be read from SSD/HDD. If then you close the program and (now that it has been cached in memory after the first time) you open it up again, it will be read directly from memory and you'll see little or no 'hard page faults' in Se7en's ResMon.

The REAL pros know better.

Don't worry at all, that -61V reading is most definitely erroneus (your comp would be in flames or something were it right). You just can't trust BIOS or software voltage readings, particularly regarding negative voltages. Use a multimeter for real readings on the PSU connectors.