[vwuon]

When I didn't have an SSD, I spent a lot of time configuring the system so it wouldn't do as much IO in the background. Lots of services, as you say, do that by default, and it's unbearable. You'd be using the computer normally and all of a sudden it would start crawling for no apparent reason.

[mcny]

I try to do the same on a work desktop but it doesn't matter because xagt.exe

Who knows what it is reading and writing that can't wait while I do npm install