SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7

By reading the Disk info under System Components, See Screenshot please-How can you tell by the numbers if your offset it correct? What numbers am I looking for?

Your offset is 1MB, which is correct for the Samsung :)

Ramesh Rawat said:

Sir,
with reference to : Optimizing Windows 7 for the SSD and TRIM part 2
Among the Startup Event, I find UBPM, when I try to unmark the Enabled, it prompts "Access Denied"
Where am I going wrong?
Please.

2nd point is about the startup time, it varies between 56 to 59 seconds.
Can this be further decreased. Just out of curiosity.

UBPM is necessary for task manager, etc... Leave it enabled. see folllowing link for info on it.
http://www.ditii.com/2009/10/05/unif...erver-2008-r2/

56 seconds total or from the time BIOS releases control to the boot device?

Thanks for the reply, Lightning.
Now after reading your reply, I again checked up and found that the UBPM was disabled, though that time it was denying access, it was disabled. So First I enabled it, and again it says Access denied, but it got enabled.
I am pleased.
Total time from the time I press the Power On till I get the desktop and the response of rightclick it takes between 56 to 59 seconds.
I also tried "Restart-Time Check" software it shows 56 and some times 59 seconds time taken to start.
The sequence of activities that appears on the screen I will note and again post the details. I see the LogOn screen twice i.e. it appears for a few seconds and again the black screen and then appears. The time taken for the POST Flash screen to appear is about 24 to 30 seconds (not very precisely measured) After 'Windows Starting" screen same amount of time is taken for the desktop to appear.
And I am not satisfied!! Expecting less than 40 seconds.
regards Lightning.
RR

Ramesh Rawat said:

Thanks for the reply, Lightning.
Now after reading your reply, I again checked up and found that the UBPM was disabled, though that time it was denying access, it was disabled. So First I enabled it, and again it says Access denied, but it got enabled.
I am pleased.
Total time from the time I press the Power On till I get the desktop and the response of rightclick it takes between 56 to 59 seconds.
I also tried "Restart-Time Check" software it shows 56 and some times 59 seconds time taken to start.
The sequence of activities that appears on the screen I will note and again post the details. I see the LogOn screen twice i.e. it appears for a few seconds and again the black screen and then appears. The time taken for the POST Flash screen to appear is about 24 to 30 seconds (not very precisely measured) After 'Windows Starting" screen same amount of time is taken for the desktop to appear.
And I am not satisfied!! Expecting less than 40 seconds.
regards Lightning.
RR

The amount of time it takes mine (laptop with OCZ Vertex LE) to boot from the end of POST to the desktop is 20-22 seconds. There is no tweak that I know of to make POST faster, short of turning off hardware detection, etc. As far as Windows 7 boot times (after POST), the fastest I have ever gotten was 14 seconds and that was with everything disabled (and therefore unusable in real life).
Boot times at least for me are not very important when compared to running times.. All my tweaks are geared to making Windows 7 faster running with SSDs after it boots.

FWIW, there is a lot of house keeping that is done during boot:
POST: check memory amount... Verify quickly RAM is functional... Check BIOS CRC.. Look for drives and mice, etc.. (the less drives plugged in, the faster POST gets! My wife has 24 USB drives plugged in and it takes 10 minutes to POST! I now have her unplug the main USB cable till after boot).
Windows Boot: Load statrup code.... get all the DLLs and stuff in memory... Look for critical hardware changes, etc...

Understood Lightning,
Will stop bothering about the boot time.
I am forgetting how to put in the QUOTE here now, so copied here.

"Windows 7 boot times (after POST), the fastest I have ever gotten was 14 seconds and that was with everything disabled (and therefore unusable in real life).
Boot times at least for me are not very important when compared to running times.. "

Ramesh

hey Lightning

Thank you very much for your great tutorial. It's the best compilation on the net so far.

BTW I wanted to ask you: the gadget you said was the most useful was Drives Meter. But it only shows disk info like free space and such, not I/O.
The one that shows I/O is Drives Monitor, under Tools and Utilities.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again! Great job!

guibao said:

hey Lightning

Thank you very much for your great tutorial. It's the best compilation on the net so far.

BTW I wanted to ask you: the gadget you said was the most useful was Drives Meter. But it only shows disk info like free space and such, not I/O.
The one that shows I/O is Drives Monitor, under Tools and Utilities.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again! Great job!

The one I use is called "Drive Meter" from Hans Olav... It shows all the IO from the drives at the controller level.