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SSD performance concerns when booting win 7 ult
Ok reciently some were working to help me try and resolve windows update issues which lead to me having to just reinstall the OS and that in turn gave me the excuse and oppertunity I needed to also do some small hardware upgrades.
I recently got a Kingston 120GB SSD which I have installed and its running my OS (listed in system specs), and when I got the drive from my local computer place they said I should/would see some sort of performance increase, well truth be told Im NOT seeing it, in fact it seems that boot times are suffering some, as when I had my mech drive (at least 4+ years old mind you) that was a Seagate 500GB drive, booted quicker then the SSD...as for the drive don't ask me specifics about the mech, as all it says is that it is "built for OEM specs and for further info contact teh PC mfg" (where lies another issue as I don't remember what PC it would have come out of as I usually pull drives out of any PC that im getting rid of and reuse them untill they more or less start to have problems/fail on me...so this piticular drive could very well be from the days of my mom's gateway (long gone since 2007/2008.
I am wanting to know of good (safe) ways to make it boot/load faster, once I get into the desktop part it loads with in meer seconds, so my main tiff is the part where you see the windows graphic with the words starting windows...it seems to just sit there and hang for at least 30 seconds to 1 minute or possibly longer...(havent timed it yet)
anyways before people start going on about enabling trim, disableing this thing or that thing, keep it simple, this is my first SSD that I have purchased, I am also reading any and all threads I can about SSDs...so what I want to know is the following (see questions below) questions...
1. How do I enable trim or verify if its already turned on? this is a fresh install of Win 7 64-bit ultimate on the new drive
2. how do I increase the boot time (when the pretty windows graphic shows with "starting windows"
3. how can I squeeze every bit of performance out of the SSD?
4. get the windows loading bit to speed up?
5. any thing else that might help me get to faster load/boot times and get them down as low as they can go...
Thanks for your help as always!!