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Old 02-14-2018, 03:21 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
If you're doing this, calibre is NOT using whatever mouse clicks or keypresses you were performing. What is happening is that calibre is finally moved into active memory by your OS and is being given focus by the OS. It will then take new entries (mouse and/or keyboard) you make, perhaps made without your realizing that the OS has switched focus to calibre. It's somewhat dangerous to activate a program and then switch to using another while the first launches or is returned to active memory.
Yep, this. One of the things I love so much about SSDs (even my fairly outdated Intel X25-M G2 120GB), they're so much faster than HDD on things like this. Before, reloading, for example, Firefox with a few dozen tabs from pagefile effectively brings the system to a halt.
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