SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7

Well done and appreciated!

I thought I would share a warning about using Link Shell. I caused myself some problems junctioning Norton Installer to the spinner, so I would just advise users that some applications are not completely fooled by LSE.

L0stKeys said:

I thought I would share a warning about using Link Shell...some applications are not completely fooled by LSE.

Good of LOstKeys to share a problem with the use of Link Shell Extension so I thought I'd share a success story. I've just installed a G.Skill Phoenix Pro as my C drive and am trying to reduce frequent and repetitive writes.

Process Monitor showed that AVAST was making a stack of writes to the C drive so I tried to reduce it. After a bit of trial and error I found the best way to do this and still be able to use AVAST was:

1. Use Link Shell Extension (see here) to move C:\Users\Raider\AppData\Local\Temp off the C:\Drive

2. Install AVAST! on a Hard Drive (say D)

3. Use Link Shell Extension to move C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software to a Hard Drive.

This makes big cuts in the number of AvastSvc.exe writes to C drive. There are still a lot of 4.096 byte writes going to C:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM but I don't want to mess with these!

Hi,
Thanks for the detailed and understandable guide. I have a question about moving the 'installer directory' off c - when you come to install software do you install it to c or e (or f in my case)??
Thanks,

MrMonster said:

Hi,
.... - when you come to install software do you install it to c or e (or f in my case)??

Basically you want to keep files that get read a lot on your SSD while moving directories that get written to a lot to another hard drive (f in your case).

That usually means you can install programs to the SSD (C drive) but check which files/directories are being written to using Process Monitor and then use Link Shell Extension to move them to your F: drive.

MrMonster said:

Hi,
Thanks for the detailed and understandable guide. I have a question about moving the 'installer directory' off c - when you come to install software do you install it to c or e (or f in my case)??
Thanks,

Some titles like MS Office you want to install to C, but also put in an installer directory to that drive without asking. These directories can be moved.

Thanks for the help,
Adobe Creative Suite is my main problem, even though you can tell it to install to another drive it still sticks a large amount of stuff on the C that you cant just move (or remove) without breaking it. It takes up precious space. Should the junction work for moving these files?
Anyone tried it?

MrMonster said:

Thanks for the help,
Adobe Creative Suite sticks a large amount of stuff on the C that you cant just move (or remove) without breaking it. ....

I installed Photoshop and Priemier Pro on C Drive then simply moved the entire C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe to my F: Drive. The various sub-directories contain about 500MB of files and get written to quite a bit when you are using the programs.

hello
can someone please help me with this ?
it says in the Tutorials SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7 ( Get the lin*x boot image from http://partedmagic.com/ and burn it to a CD/DVD.) .
is that the name of the file i'm looking for ?
i can't seem to find it at that site. can someone give me a little more info so i can get to it ?
thanks
scrooge

scrooge said:

hello
can someone please help me with this ?
it says in the Tutorials SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7 ( Get the lin*x boot image from http://partedmagic.com/ and burn it to a CD/DVD.) .
is that the name of the file i'm looking for ?
i can't seem to find it at that site. can someone give me a little more info so i can get to it ?
thanks
scrooge

Goto the site. Click download on the left. Get the parted magic ISO and burn to CD.