finally rescued an old T61 that I was using as a Windows box. The application my bike's fuel controller uses needs Windows. I don't foresee needing that anymore so I swapped the drive with the original Slackware install. It's working very nicely now.
Windows was becoming to all intents unusable due to the I/O thrashing (an almost constant disk queue).
This is something that never fails to amaze me about Windows, and it's been a thing since Vista and they *still* won't sort it.
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...There is always *some* job it's running that absolutely saturates the I/O. It's infuriating. This used to annoy me enough with servers, but on a modest laptop with a 5200rpm spinner it's intolerable.
