This thread is not a definitive list of what MUST be tweaked, it is simply a discussion of what various users have tweaked and had good results with.
I see arguments and conflicting advice...so lets settle the debate here in this thread before i write a new guide.
At this time when I test a system i do the following tweaks and NOTHING ELSE..
1 I check the board is in
AHCI mode, if no option is available there is nothing you can do.
2 I check if S1 and S3 sleep are supported in bios, I usually set S1 but S3 should be ok also....if they are not in bios there is nothing you can do
3 I check ACPI 2.0 is in bios and enabled, if its not in bios there is nothing you can do
4 I boot to 32bit win7 RC1 on USB which also has Sanitary Erase on the USB drive. I run SE off the USB drive using the CMD window within the win7 installer. if the drives are brand new i do not bother with this step.
5 I then power off, swap USB drives to 64bit win7 final and I Install win7 off this new USB drive ( I do this is its much faster than off DVD)
6 I let win7 installer create and format the partition, all i do is hit NEXT even though the installer sees the drive and reports the drive space is RAW. Win7 will create a primary partition and quick format all on its own.
7 I use win7 native AHCI driver for both AMD and INTEL systems.
8 Install takes 10mins tops, i then load Video and Sound drivers and any LAN driver I may need.
9 The tweaks:
Disable Superfetch
Disable Defrag scheduler
Disable drive Indexing
I set the power state to high performance and set the machine to never sleep, HDD power down to OFF but I do set the screen to go off after 1hr.
I rarely touch pagefile when testing drives, I let the pagefile be on the SSD. I also leave Hibernate alone and also system restore is left alone.
So, you should see I do very little, I have worked on tweaks BUT I believe they are more aimed at the enthusiast and not the day to day user.
So...lets discuss what we think is best for just day to day easy to implement tweaks. I think what I do here is all that is needed...what do you all think?
Edit:
I just read a post from Praz explaining something I had not noticed. People now think you have to tweak windows with OCZ SSD, the fact is you do not.
The SSD forum here has got cross saturation from the gen1 forum where tweaks were needed. Vertex, Agility, Turbo and Summit are all what we call Gen2 and do not need tweaking at all. On the most part win7 in AHCI mode will do all the tweak you need for single disk operation all by its self...it looks like people on the whole have forgotten that part.
Be aware...I am not saying do not tweak the system if you wish, what I am saying is most think you HAVE TO tweak the system....fact is you do not.