XP Write caching & performance

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C.T.

I've been noticing that my computer is accessing things a bit slowly.
Sometimes it takes a second or two to switch applications and bring up
menus. After some use it can slow down much more than that.

I have just disabled write caching and things have speeded up
considerably. Is this a sign of a deep seated problem?

I have a 1.8Ghz processor and 768MB of ram.

Any help would be appreciated
C.T.
 
What you have described is not necessarily the sign of a problem.
Disabling write caching can lead to incomplete writes.
 
Leonard Grey said:
Disabling write caching can lead to incomplete writes.
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That's rather surprising, I'd have thought that write-caching was the
'faster but more risky' option. So, not caching writes could potentially
corrupt files?
 
That's rather surprising, I'd have thought that write-caching was the
'faster but more risky' option. So, not caching writes could potentially
corrupt files?
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Thanks for the interest in my problem. I too was surprised to read
this response as I thought the riskier option was to enable
write-caching. I've enabled it again but I was surprised to find that
disabling it speeded things up rather than slowing them down as I
expected.

C.T.
 
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