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Tade0 on July 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 t...

I remember when I was a kid that I used this "hack" to speed up installations.

If I moved the mouse the HDD would spin furiously but once the mouse stopped it would resume trickling the writes/reads again.

segfaultbuserr on July 3, 2019 [–]

"large applications that could take an hour to install could be reduced to 15 minutes with suitable mouse input."

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