ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Maybe you could improvise a little mousepad shelf to attach to the arm of the chair?
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Mart44
Über Member
- Location
- South of England
Windows 10 recognises when an SSD is installed and trims instead of defragging.
presta
Guru
Remember when flat screen TVs arrived: "Look at this new antiglare screen, no more reflections from a shiny CRT!". Now they're all shiny again.
Have you tried the charity shops, I've seen a couple of office chairs in BHF that I've been tempted to buy.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
classic33
Leg End Member
Sun lounger?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I didn't know that. I just found THIS article mentioning it. There is a strange double negative - setting DisableDeleteNotify disabled means that trim is enabled!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'd either have to get a very low desk or put the lounger on a platform.
But now you mention it, I do have several sun loungers which I had never considered using for this application...
Mart44
Über Member
- Location
- South of England
I didn't know that. I just found THIS article mentioning it. There is a strange double negative - setting DisableDeleteNotify disabled means that trim is enabled!
I decided to clean install W.10 a while ago when version 1903 was released. I found that the 'Optimise' button started the 'trim' process without needing to make sure it was enabled. It looks to be the default if an SSD is being used.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
On the next version, when you open the Performance tab in Task Manager, it will explicitly label drives as HDD or SSD.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
D'oh - I didn't think of searching for 'reclining' - I was still in cyclist mode and searching for 'recumbent'! 
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
D'oh - I didn't think of searching for 'reclining' - I was still in cyclist mode and searching for 'recumbent'!
Thesaurus to the rescue!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I have a tatty old office chair which isn't worth much so I think I will have a go at modifying the back rest on that to get it into a reclining position. (I should be able to drill some new mounting holes in the metal strut to which it is attached. I already have a spare footstool which I could use with the chair to get my legs horizontal.)
Meanwhile back at the Linux replacement for Win 7... I am going to install the same version of Linux on the little netbook which was donated to me recently. I will be interested to see how well it works on that, given its small low-res screen and relative lack of memory.
PS The 'sun loungers' that I thought had been left in my cellar by the previous tenants turn out to just be folding garden chairs.
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presta
Guru
Well it was good whilst it lasted. After 3 days of blissful lightning fast computing, the new machine is grindingly slow like the old one this morning. Jerky scrolling, characters appearing slowly one at a time after typing a word, pregnant pause after pressing start menu button, file explorer window opens slowly in several flickering stages instead of instantly. WTF has gone wrong so quickly?
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
That sounds distinctly like symptoms of a nasty. I'd strongly suggest you download & run Malwarebytes - it's the Daddy when it comes to nasties. It's free, BTW.
