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Windows 7 SSD Tweak Guide (Asrock Extreme 4 / Corsair Force 3 120GB)

2012-10-10
hey YouTube what up this is Brian easy I got a request to do an SSD tweet guide so here it is guys first things first let's go to our bus so we go into our BIOS guys and basically we want to go to so in Ana's rock extreme for I'm going to go to advanced storage configuration and basically I'm going to check and make sure that my drives in AHCI guys so you want to make sure it's in HCI and you also want to make sure that this here so this is important guys this is probably the most important people don't do is that you click on your SSD manually here so it's on a side of three port guys and you see Corsair 4 3 SSD and we want to make sure that see it's a solid-state drive so before it was default will usually be a hard disk drive you want to make sure it does solid-state drive I did notice a bump in performance after our chairs that option now make sure that's selected and that's selected and obviously before you apply this tweak guide guys or you should make sure as if as with anything before you make any changes to your computer you should always make sure that it's stable beforehand and you know everything works again so anyway guys this is the bio section I'm going to boot into Windows and then our boot into Camtasia I'm going to show you the rest of the tweaks in Windows and what to do so as this is the first week guys in BIOS you just change those two settings for the extreme for there under storage configuration AHCI and click on the drive solid state drive make sure those options are selected yeah so that's the first a little bit let's go on to Windows ok guys so we've made sure those settings are enabled in BIOS and now we're going to move on to Windows so I'm using Camtasia Studio 8 now and we're going to basically show you guys first I'm going to open up my tweet guide for an SSD because obviously I've forgotten a little bit of the steps I use since it's been a while since I've done this now the first step here is basically yeah right-click on C Drive properties and uncheck indexing box so guys feel free to pause at any time during this tweet guide as well and you know sure yeah pause make sure yeah if I'm too fast for you guys just pause it so so let's go we go so you go to computer start dry start computer right click here properties and local disk and you want to see that there allow files blah blah blah contents index in addition to a file properties you want to make sure that's unchecked then you go apply and you go ok this will take about a minute or so I've already done it so I don't need to do it again so now we're on to the next week disabled this fragment ok so I actually enabled this before I did the tweak guide just to show you guys what it's like because you know as you disable it in services it won't work anymore so we open up this new fragment and you want to make sure everything is on never wrong so obviously it'll be here really turn off schedule and you can just turn it off mind now let's change the turn on schedule obviously so if we do that ok run schedule okay figure scheduled run on schedule okay see let me just turn it off okay so it's turned off all of our let's make sure we do that and then we want to okay so we can disable that later in services will disable few services later now System Restore so we want to make sure the system restore is disabled so we go to computer open control panel and I'm pretty sure it's a system restore should be in system system protection so you want to make sure that's off so you can click on configure mainly your SSD you can use a backup guys I just click that turn off system protection okay and that's off okay and that'll free up about I don't know it can free up depending on your hard drive space I think it freed up a few gig for me at least which on an SSD is precious space okay so that's that tweak done okay let's move on to the next disable hibernation to which does free up space okay so for this one guys you want to go to see accessories command prompt and run as administrator and you want to disable that setting mine's already disabled but I'll show you what you do anyway you just type in here sorry power CFG /h off and that will make sure it's ready off for me so it's very quick to do it so that's that that'll free up some more gigabytes on your system now guys make sure the page files turn off and this this tweak here is debatable people say all you do you should use I found my computer runs very good without it on so I highly recommend it system protection I think it's in advanced yeah there it is so basically you go to system properties Temptation you know or whatever and go to advanced here this tab next to system protections go to performance settings and we want to go to advanced ok and we wanted to see this virtual memory now this is why I recommend getting 16 gigabytes of RAM guys because if you get a gigabytes around you're probably going to need that 8 gigabytes cache which going to take out a gigabytes on your SSD this will 16 gigabytes we can just use only the RAM to give us that really good performance in Windows and see here you change it and you basically want to say no paging file okay and then you want to restart your computer this one actually needs a restart to take effect mine's already done so I don't need to do it anymore now let's get onto the next week guys so here we go obviously the next step after this is power options turn on high-performance okay so we go to control panel power options and I've got mine on high performance but also guys you can change planner do mind attendants and off display never put the computer to sleep and I obviously did a hard disk turn off hard disk never okay so they're the main ones I also will quickly show up at that the paused and that's about it going to sleep after never it's about all I use basically so that's yeah so that's power options that may be affecting your hard drive sometimes if you leave your computer afk and the next step okay so that's that down office we can right click on SSD in device many properties and check the box lash this one is that a little bit of an extra boost in that so again you click on right click go to properties go to hardware go to properties again go to change settings of policies so you've got to click on a lot of settings there so let me show you again guys it's a lot of things to click through you go to properties hardware click on your SSD go to properties again go to change settings I'm pretty sure you change settings policies so it's like so many within and we're basically enabled write caching on the device and we can turn on windows right case your buffer flushing on the device so now since my computer is really stable I can put both of them on I actually find I've actually found guys and I probably recommend actually doing this is that you know I actually I've noticed very little difference between having this one on and off I've actually noticed a little bit write caching on the diversity that's good I've actually turned this one off because I don't notice the difference so and if there is a little bit of a power blackout that one can cause corrupt files like really dangerous so be careful with that that's setting again so just want to double check and make sure it's there and I don't yet personally I don't yeah I actually don't recommend leaving that on unless you've got a uninterrupted power supply so as Windows does recommend so that's pretty pretty solid advice from Windows 7 there anyway so now for some regedit tweaks guys these ones now obviously guys i have a whole windows 7 tweak guide which you can check out and i'll post the link here in the comments section was put in the comment section guys you can check it out and it's got a lot of good tweaks especially to make it in 1080p and pause it and do all the stuff Inc yeah so that's you know do that if you want to tweak Windows like mine's tweaked and you know there's some other good tweaks over this is an SSD tweaks typically today so let's go to regedit so we go to start menu regedit and we can go to yeah my eye problems with Google and an explorer with my Outlook Express side to turn that off and change them setting the regedit to make it work now let's go to mmm this on thirst H key local machine so the things are they're basically system currentcontrolset and so I'm pretty slow doing this file system and yeah you want to make sure FTS disable 8.3 name creation yeah that one that basically saves your computer from making another file which does increase performance ever so slightly and NDF last access update so but that one I've ready like I said that should already be done just that one you got the name creation you can change it again so yeah change it to one and that's how you do it so sure you've done yet okay now load is face checks this is the next one in current user so it just collapse them I mean sorry yeah collapsing and we go to this one yes software now I had to make this one okay so this one I actually had to make the folder I think I'm never know if I've done it yet so may have not even done this one yet but I remember in the past I had to actually make the folder so current user software sorry it's just looking places different places please slow reading this case card version and policies Explorer load net there we go so Explorer no load disk space checks and so value one as you can see so that'll basically make it if you disk is long space what's on the SSC it makes no difference if the drives full or if it's empty doesn't affect from some ancestor at all they're designed differently to hard drives so yeah check that too one that will take that off and Lester the last thing is guys some services take off some services again so now you want to take off disk Defragmenter there is there get properties when you go disabled and apply we're going to get that off and ActiveX which I find was already disabled anyway and offline files so we want to get rid of all flowing files as well now I'll find file I was disabled and windows search I do use Windows search as you can see else doing search for MS services that MSC so it's a good like windows search it's good feature to have I use mine Ashley on automatic not even manual I like it so it's a good feature and I don't notice any performance differences in anything so now guys the last thing I want to talk about you might be like oh well why doesn't he use for instance why doesn't he use super fetch wising disable super fetching prefetch I've actually disabled them and I've tried with them with disabled and you know with using them and I find performance is better with them both on so you know there you go guys I recommend leaving prefetch and super fetch on there actually good so there you go guys if you've got any comments let me know in the comment section below or if you've got me of your own suggestions that I may have missed please let me know and as always peace out for now and if you got any requests - no I'll do so yeah guys peace out for now writing complete
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