Windows 100 % Disk Issue - New Laptop

[SpyderTracks]

Perfect! Thanks for that. Might consider this then as an option but will see how the laptop fairs for now.

If you could recommend any SSDs to look out for, I would be extremely grateful.

Depends if you want normal SATA or M2, I’d suggest a 500gb M2 NVME drive:

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[debiruman665]

I am not a fan of disabling system services.

When you have an unusable disk compared to the preview icons of images and videos appearing a little bit faster it's not much of a choice. How often have you even used windows search and actually found what you were looking for anyway. Half the time it directs me to a web-page for the software that I'm looking for that's installed on my system. Windows search indexing is a very innocuous thing to disable.

 

[Tony1044]

When you have an unusable disk compared to the preview icons of images and videos appearing a little bit faster it's not much of a choice. How often have you even used windows search and actually found what you were looking for anyway. Half the time it directs me to a web-page for the software that I'm looking for that's installed on my system. Windows search indexing is a very innocuous thing to disable.

Given the fact I have literally hundreds of customer documents, I use search all the time, though not the Cortana-based search field in the start menu (although I use that to start to type application names or services etc).

I have a mix of Windows 10 - personally I like the long term service release as it doesn't have Cortana embedded but I can't use it day-to-day right now as I need to be on top of current features.

Does that answer your question?

 

[Tony1044]

Yeah, really simple, literally just slot out and slot in.

And it wouldn't affect your warranty either, you're allowed to do upgrades without affecting warranty so long as you don't do damage in the process. I would then leave the HDD as a data drive.

To add to this - I've often recommended friends and family upgrade their aging desktops and laptop drives to an SSD where their machine is otherwise usable for them (not gaming etc) and the comment is inevitably how it feels even better than new. The difference is especially notable when you are doing something that causes disk contention such as indexing and loading an application for example.