I purchased a Dell Mini 9, and found that the boot
partition on the Flash based hard drive was fully
compressed with Windows compression. ACK! After
uncompressing the whole drive, XP booted as fast as I
would expect any computer to boot XP. Not the fasted
boot ever, but not bad either.
I can see why they compressed the whole drive, it is
only 16 Gig in size, which is paltry compared to other
modern drives. But this step only saved about 1/2 of
a Gig of space. Not enough to put up with the slow
response of the OS. I did re-compress only the My
Documents folder, as that's where it makes the most
sense. But for the OS, compressing is murder on
speed.
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