[OPLINTECH] Laptop with DeepFreeze recommendations

[Technology Coordinator]

Hello Everyone!

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.

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.

Steps already taken:

Maximize for Performance in the Advanced options (turn off the eye candy)
Reduce the Windows 10 pre-install packages (the X-Box integration and such)
Shut off OneDrive
Disabled as many startup programs as possible
Turned off Indexing
Ran all updates to include the Creator's Update
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%

I have not adjusted the power plans from Balanced as the switch to High
Performance reduces our battery times in greatly.

Bottom line, is upgrading the RAM and switching to SSD our best option to
improve user experience? If not, what would you recommend?

Thank you,
Mark


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Mark Sanzotta
Technology Coordinator
Ashtabula County District Library
4335 Park Ave.
Ashtabula, Ohio  44004

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