SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7

Brink said:

Hello msalton,

Yep, it's still valid though today's SSDs are a lot less bothered by reads and writes since most include built-in TRIM. :)

Thanks, Brink. :)

hi...back again :). I've applied many of these tweaks, moving some user dirs, turning off log files, etc., also changing environment variables to point the Temp files to a "scratch partition" on a mechanical drive just for the purpose of temp files.

I've noticed, however, that User temp files found in username\\AppData\Local\Temp aren't mentioned. I've added that dir to Ccleaner's custom inclusions (along with the scratch partition's temp files, since windows still doesn't seem to clean up), but it would be nice to reduce writes further by moving it off of C:. Is there a way to do this, or is it counter-productive to move that folder?

Thanks!

Also, what's the deal with all of the class ID looking folders ( {0C9BDD1E-FD79-476E-AF6C-BAA35C4AAD6D} ) under Username\AppData\Local? MSE? There are 61 of them ATM. Anything to worry about?

Hello thank you very much for this tutorial! it's great. I recently install a x64 version of windows to my pc. 60gbSSD 2tb WD black. is there a way to move the windows update folder safely? I tried moving and then making a junction in safe mode for the 'SoftwareDistribution' folder. However this led to a non-working windows updater. (it would simply show a red x and state it was unable to check for updates) As soon as I placed the SoftwareDistribution folder back on C:, windows update worked again. Thanks!

Seriously impressed with the difference adding an SSD has made to my old [Oct 2009] Dell XPS 16. Feels like its good to go now for a few more year. Boots in about 20 seconds, and shuts down in about 5 seconds...Love it.

Other than some tweaks mentioned here, I have a question regarding the ACHI driver. Currently it shows it to be "msachi" but I have read it is better to use the Intel Rapid Storage drivers.

My question is, how can I find out if my Sata port is an intel and is it recommended I install the intel drivers for my SSD??

btw...I have attached a snip of what my Device managers shows.

Thanks IC, currently just using the default windows drivers, system appears to be happy and stable. Just thought since i added an SSD, I may have been able to squeeze out a bit more out of the SSD using the Intel drivers.

Otherwise it is using the MS ACHI driver currently and no issues with that.

Thanks for your very helpful information. I have just installed a 120GB Kingston SSD for my primary OS drive and did a new clean OS installation of Windows 7 Pro Oem with all of my other drives disconnected. On re boot of my new system setup, I then started trying some of your recommendations. When I entered the locations in services, I found that most of them were set to manual and I assume that if that is the case, I do not need to disable them and that some like defrag can be performed on my HDDs manually when needed without affecting My SSD OS. I don't know if Kingston's SSD made these changes since I had not reviewed the Services prior to SSD Install. Has anyone else experienced a similar situation or does Windows 7 now set these automatically when and SSD is installed.