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Saw an article this morning recommending that you run the command: "Defrag C:" from time to time on your SSD drives. But does it make sense to defrag a SSD? I can understand that it is of value on old spinning disk hard drives, where fragmentation can cause the reader to physically jump from fragment to fragment, but a SSD has no moving parts.
What do the experts say?
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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No - all it will do is 'burning' write cycles, which shortens the life of the drive
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." β Gerald Weinberg
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This is a well-known and probably correct argument.
On the other hand, the question I have is: If SSDs use something like DMA, could a certain kind of defragmentation increase throughput?
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Agreed.
Steve Gibson (author of Spin-Rite) has discussed this numerous times on his Security Now podcast, and it makes zero sense to "defrag" an SSD.
Some people have called him a quack, and I originally sided with them (somewhat), but after listening to his podcast for nearly a decade, it's clear he's technical to an extreme and very knowledgeable. When he does a deep dive into some technical matter, I think he always makes a lot of sense. He's not clickbait-y and doesn't make outrageous claims.
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...downhill!
VS consuming huge amount of memory isn't new (even MS decided to ignore it totally)...
But now I have something new... And it confirmed several times...
I have a solution with around 80 projects in it, only a several loaded at any given time... If I reload a project to change something it will not compile until VS closed and re-opened...
Until that time it will report compilation failed without any actual error, but also without the option to run...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." β Gerald Weinberg
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After the last update of VS2022 my colleague reported that debugging with step over and step into didn't work anymore. It was not clear to me if he was talking about C++ or C# debugging, he also uses other debugging tools that might interfere with VS debugging.
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RickZeeland wrote: debugging with step over and step into didn't work anymore. It was not clear to me if he was talking about C++ or C# debugging
Interesting you'd mention that. I installed the latest update last week, and on Thursday/Friday, on multiple occasions, single-stepping (F10) seemed to continue execution or couldn't recover or something like that. I attributed it to me fat-fingering it, but happened enough times that now I see your post, I'm wondering if there's something to it.
In my case that would be C#.
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I recently bought a new bluetooth device and it only uses Bluetooth LE. The Bluetooth adapter on my desktop is too old to connect.
So $16 later, I have an upgraded adapter that supports BT 5.0. My new device connects and works!
But now my older bluetooth devices don't connect... 
clarification: They won't pair with the new adapter.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 20hrs ago.
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That's disturbing to hear.
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So, all of your devices happen to connect to either BT, or BT LE exclusively...?
Can they not co-exist? Maybe installing the LT adapter disabled the older one...check Device Manager and such.
Beyond that, I'm just guessing. I've never purchased a BT device, and those that came with one, have had it disabled.
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This morning I tried to print from my Windows desktop and Windows listed the printers I can target. Included in the list was an unknown HP printer! Checking the Control Panel and sure enough the list of printers included a HP device. Now here is the thing:
Years ago, in the days of XP, I bought a HP scanner. When Windows 7 came out, the scanner driver was incompatible with 7 and HP refused to provide a driver for Win 7. So since that time HP products were banned from our house. There is no HP printer in our house or connected to our network!
Why did Windows install a totally unknown HP printer on my machine, probably with the last update? 
I managed to remove the printer from my setup, but this really p**** me off.
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Are you connected via rdp to somewhere, or were you at some recent before? Modern windows will attempt to autocreate printer it finds on the remote lan.
Barring That, get a mac. 
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The first thought of mine was also printer redirection by RDP
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No. No connections via rdp.
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There was an article in yesterday's CP daily news about the last Windows update installing some HP software even when there was no HP hardware present. MS said they were looking into it. Maybe your new phantom printer was added with that update, perhaps with some additional HP software.
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FreedMalloc wrote: perhaps with some additional HP soft malware.
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"HP" and "malware" in the same sentence.
Now you're just being redundant.
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