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by Stoik
Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:15 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: [solved] PreLoad Portable Office
Replies: 13
Views: 33668

Re: PreLoad Portable Office

OK, I am looking above at this page, and all the responses are from "wise heads" (administrators, etc) I am the only "amateur" in this discussion. Hence, the verdict is pretty clear to me : do not bother with any preloaders, they are not worth the bother, there is little bang for...
by Stoik
Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:30 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: [solved] PreLoad Portable Office
Replies: 13
Views: 33668

Re: PreLoad Portable Office

Webfork wrote : "All those programs try to stay resident in memory to enable faster startup times, probably to make up for the fact that they're bulky and poorly maintained. I don't know if that means it's a good idea. This is just squeezing one part of the computer to make up for problems on t...
by Stoik
Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:12 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: [solved] PreLoad Portable Office
Replies: 13
Views: 33668

Re: PreLoad Portable Office

Bitcoin wrote : "not sure what the problem is, if i launch Open Office or Apache Open Office from a USB 3.0 thumb drive it takes less than 10 seconds, from an onboard SSD drive its less than 5 seconds". Dear Bitcoin, bless you ! You must have lived a very privileged and sheltered life if y...
by Stoik
Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:07 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: [solved] PreLoad Portable Office
Replies: 13
Views: 33668

Re: PreLoad Portable Office

System wrote : "The main reason why preloaders are rare these days is that they're a trade-off. They slow down Windows startup in order to speed up application startup." Well, whoever attempts to write a small preloader, and the user of a preloader, can easily recognize what to do and wha...
by Stoik
Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:28 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: [solved] PreLoad Portable Office
Replies: 13
Views: 33668

[solved] PreLoad Portable Office

Whatever happened to those past attempts to preload Open Office or it's derivatives ? Or, for that matter, to preload any other "slow & heavy" application. With Windows XP there was some real buzz about it, all that talk about prefetch and later superfetch, but now you barely hear abou...
by Stoik
Tue Sep 04, 2018 9:32 am
Forum: Resources & Links
Topic: Create Your Own HomePage
Replies: 2
Views: 5655

Re: Create Your Own HomePage

In my original description above, I forgot to mention that I would like to avoid : 1. additional technical gimmicks - like RSS feeds to my cellphone, etc, and especially 2. "we will let you know" services - like Yahoo sending you emails with news links. Once, in the late 1990's, I subscrib...
by Stoik
Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:33 am
Forum: Resources & Links
Topic: Create Your Own HomePage
Replies: 2
Views: 5655

Create Your Own HomePage

I am looking for software , OR an online engine /resource, that lets you create your own web page - according to your own preferences. The output news web page should be something like https://www.drudgereport.com/ , and when I say "like" I mean the structure and format, not the content. I...
by Stoik
Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:22 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]
Replies: 18
Views: 22457

Re: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]

Bitcoin wrote : Are you watching your CPU usage ? Try System Explorer or Process Explorer to see if there are some programs you have running in the background that are tying up resources. Oh, that is the very first thing I checked. What stuck me as odd is that, in spite the very low CPU and RAM usa...
by Stoik
Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:44 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]
Replies: 18
Views: 22457

Re: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]

System wrote : BSODs with varying messages are often a sign of hardware issues . Hardware again ! All points to replacing my NTFS drive with new SDD drive (and Windows license won't be a problem). And my very last question (to System or anyone else): is there a software tool out there that can diag...
by Stoik
Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:00 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]
Replies: 18
Views: 22457

Re: Slow down writing to disk

Thank You all for the excellent ideas. I will soon change the title of this post to [resolved], but only after "the dust settles down" - since comments are still pouring in at high speed. System's suggestion to tweak I/O priorities of programs (see above) has largely resolved my problem. W...
by Stoik
Mon Jul 09, 2018 2:33 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]
Replies: 18
Views: 22457

Re: Slow down writing to disk

bitcoin, What does "underpowered OP" mean ? I could not figure that out from the rest of Your comment (about Your Acer netbook etc). The C drive on my Toshiba Satellite P875-S730 is an NTFS drive. I purchased it with the Windows 8 OS built in. After a few tweaks to make the Windows 8 user...
by Stoik
Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:57 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]
Replies: 18
Views: 22457

Re: Slow down writing to disk

Wow !!! Lots of excellent responses and ideas in such a short time ! System, Thanks for the excellent suggestion about I/O priority rather than CPU priority, I did not think of that. I have the Process Hacker, but my current default "process tweaker" Process Lasso can also do this. However...
by Stoik
Sun Jul 08, 2018 9:49 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Slow down writing to disk [resolved]
Replies: 18
Views: 22457

Slow down writing to disk [resolved]

Intense reading from a disk and writing to a disk can slow down the system to a crawl - very annoying. A very common problem, I am sure that all of You are frequently annoyed by this ! Examples of heavy duty drive activity (reading and writing) that can take a while (e.g. several minutes or longer) ...
by Stoik
Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:16 am
Forum: Problems & Troubleshooting
Topic: Chromium-Based Browsers - Portability Problem !
Replies: 25
Views: 86020

Re: Chromium-Based Browsers - Portability Problem !

My latest testing reveals more good news : 1. JohnTHaller's portable version of the latest Opera (53.0.2907.99) if fully portable (= "lossless" transfer to another PC or device), after not being so for a while - so they are back ! 2. There are more and more fully portable (& fully tran...
by Stoik
Wed May 02, 2018 5:55 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Media Player - 32-bit better than 64-bit ? (resolved)
Replies: 6
Views: 12101

Re: Media Player - 32-bit better than 64-bit ?

After testing this further on several PCs,
I concluded that John Haller was right :
32-bit vs 64-bit made no noticeable or significant difference in overexerting resources (e.g. CPU),
the key factor was the number of commands used via command-line (e.g. 2 commands roughly doubled the resources).