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Ed,

Interesting article! Although I don’t have Thunderbolt the info about the increase in speed by changing the external drive’s caching settings intrigued me so I though I’d test it out on plain old USB-3.

Test Setup:
Windows 11 (Tiny11)
Dell Inspiron 137000 laptop i-5 5200U
8 Gb DDR3 Single Channel
Samsung 850 EVO 250Gb SATA SSD

External Drive: Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 Gen 4 – 1Tb in an ORICO M.2 NVMe enclosure supporting USB3.2 Gen 2.

To my surprise there was no appreciable difference in backup times. I was hoping at least maybe a 5-10% difference. I used my automated backup which records the timings to remove the human element.

With Caching OFF – Fast Removal:

10/02/23 10:42:59 Backup Started...
10/02/23 11:05:28 Backup Succeeded (G:\BEKDocs\Reflect\Boot Drive.xml).
					Summary File: F2A67157E424E5F2-00-00.html
10/02/23 11:05:28 Backup Set ended. Total Elapsed Time: 00:22:41

With Caching ON:

10/02/23 10:23:14 Backup Succeeded (G:\BEKDocs\Reflect\Boot Drive.xml).
					Summary File: 8217C4BB11400A7F-00-00.html
10/02/23 10:23:15 Backup Set ended. Total Elapsed Time: 00:23:04

Go figure but it was slower with Caching ON!

Yeah, I know I need new HW! Unfortunately, for my daily workload I can’t justify it. I used the laptop, 2015, which is only used for testing so I wouldn’t tie up my main driver which is also 6 years old.

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Bbearren,

Yeah, I’ve taken to exporting Tasks to xml files, editing them, then importing them back into task scheduler. That said, we shouldn’t have to do this.

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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John,

I’m curious, who’s building your new PC? Also, when you get it please keep us apprised of your experiences with it. Inquiring minds want to know! HA HA

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RG

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Very Interesting…

Context Menu:

Registry Entry:

Well, all I can say is it works for me.

UPDATE: I tried it with the 86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2 and that worked also, go figure!

UPDATE & APOLOGY!:
Well I kept on figuring and finally remembered, hard at my age, that I had StartAllBack installed. Thus the fact that the wrong registry key worked because it wasn’t being used!

SORRY EVERYONE!

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Tbkid,

See this post.

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Susan, be my guest.

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When does he get his Tile and GoPro?

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cyberSAR

You can edit the registry or use a registry update file to accomplish this with W10 home. Here’s a link to instructions for both methods.

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oldfry

Updated daily driver today. It took an hour and a half!

Edge is still banished and Wordpad is likewise.

Now on to Canary…

UPDATE:
Well this is embarrassing…Seems like my mucking around getting rid of EDGE was a bit too much for Windows Update. If you notice the build number in the picture above you’ll notice, as I eventually did, that it is not the latest. When I updated Canary I saw this:

So I went back to the daily driver and checked the Update History and lo and behold:

So I cleaned out the SoftwareDistribution folder and tried it again with the same result.

Macrium Reflect to the rescue! I restored the C: drive back to 9/1 before I started mucking around the tried the updates again and BINGO!

When I calm down a bit maybe I’ll try the Edge experiment again on the Daily Driver then again maybe I’ll use Canary instead!

As we love to say here on AW Backup, Backup, BACKUP!

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RG

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Yes, StartAllBack does support toolbars on the taskbar.

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Ok, someone please explain how water used to cool a computer is actually “used up”? Water will absorb the heat from the computer and either become just hot water or steam. If it’s in a closed loop system steam can run a turbine to generate electricity. Hot water can be used to heat buildings. Or as in a geothermal system be cooled down by the ambient temperature of the ground to match the temp. of the river water and be returned to the river as sterilized fresh water.

Ok, I’ve donned my asbestos have at it.

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Per MicroFix’s excellent suggestion do your initial Boot via a USB bootable recovery drive for a product like Macrium Reflect. This way you can Image the drive BEFORE you make ANY changes. So if you have to return the device you can restore that image and it will be like it was fresh out of the box. Makes returns much easier.

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oldfry, Kirsty, IreneLinda

To answer your question we’d have to know if you are a gamer or not. Seems reasonable for a gamer and way over-speced, and thus over-priced, for a non-gamer.

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Thanks again bbearren!

I’ve eradicated XBox from my Win 10 setup on my main driver.
Thanks for the heads-up on HDCleaner, it found a couple HUNDRED registry entries for things I’ve been eliminating and cleaned them up.

So many new tools…I just love AskWoody! Starting to remind me of the old Windows Secrets days.

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For the same reason some people get under the hood of their cars and others take it to a mechanic. It’s nice to know what goes on under the hood and of course there is the challenge of doing it yourself.

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