<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone!<div><br></div><div>I have 20 newer Dell Laptops (bought within the last year or so) running Windows 10 with i3 processors, 6 GB of RAM, and regular HDD. </div><div><br></div><div>Since putting Deep Freeze on them I have noticed a significant impact to user experience. My first thought is to bump up the RAM to at least 8GB and replace the current hard drives with SSDs. Before investing that much money, I was wondering if anyone had recommendations to lessen the impact of DeepFreeze on these units.</div><div><br></div><div>Steps already taken:</div><div><br></div><div>Maximize for Performance in the Advanced options (turn off the eye candy)</div><div>Reduce the Windows 10 pre-install packages (the X-Box integration and such)</div><div>Shut off OneDrive <br clear="all"><div>Disabled as many startup programs as possible</div><div>Turned off Indexing</div><div>Ran all updates to include the Creator's Update</div><div>Checked the system performance tabs and although RAM peaks at 80% utilized, HDD is using about 30% or so during normal use and CPU is around 20%</div><div><br></div><div>I have not adjusted the power plans from Balanced as the switch to High Performance reduces our battery times in greatly. </div><div><br></div><div>Bottom line, is upgrading the RAM and switching to SSD our best option to improve user experience? If not, what would you recommend?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Mark Sanzotta</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Technology Coordinator</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Ashtabula County District Library</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">4335 Park Ave.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Ashtabula, Ohio 44004</span><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(24,24,24);font-weight:normal;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:18px">“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.” ― <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1221698.Neil_Gaiman" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Neil Gaiman</a></h1></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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