Brian, Your timing of this Video couldn't have been better. Today is the day I feel the need for speed and am going to install my new 240 GB Kingston Hyper X 3K SSD. At $180 for the bundle kit with Acronis, I couldn't pass any longer. Your Video's are the best on the Tube. Much thanks, and Cheers. VT
By damage Britec means this is because SSD drives have a read and write limit which is quite high but defragging a drive will be reading and writing all the time, meaning it will shorten the life span of the SSD drastically.
SSD have wear and tear write cycles which means the more you write to the drive you shorten the life of it. So by by doing these steps it reduces the amount of writes to that SSD drive.
Hi Paul, Turn off Windows automatic defrag. Like SSDs and sometimes disabling super-fetch can improve performance. Hope this helps you out, all the best Brian
Brian, here are more tips: For services you can disabled this ones: sc config wsearch start= disabled sc config defragsvc start= disabled HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters -> LargeSystemCache 0x0 Delete these folders if it is disabled %windir%\Prefetch %programdata%\Microsoft\Search For small SSD's powercfg -h off Set SSD not in sleep: powercfg -x disk-timeout-ac 0 powercfg -x disk-timeout-dc 0
There is a link in my video description that will answer all your questions, I did not go to deep into it because trying to keep video short and sweet.
With the new SSD's you don't need to get too crazy here. Turning off your Sleep mode, Defrag off, turning off system restore, are good things too. A big thing would be going to your power configurations and setting the power options and setting it up for high performance. Many people that buy the newest SSD's are not going to know all this stuff and yet they are far more durable now then they use to be. :)
441meatloaf Not if the OS is backed up on an external storage device and if the computer is configured correctly for the running OS, windows will not crash. But why toil to run crapware windows when Linux requires no bloatware?
I have a system image of windows 7 backed up on my TB hard drive. You really don't need or want system restore when you have an SSD. I mean of course mine can handle it. Just it opens up a lot of space on your SSD when your not using it. Its totally not necessary. :)
at 4:48 he starts speaking fast, so here's what I got from it. Regedit>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>SYSTEM>>CurrentControlSet>>Control>>Session Manager>>Memory Management>>PrefetchParameters>>EnablePrefetcher. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Hi, at about 2:53 you show imo the disabling of defrag for SSD, under this is the system information(?) please advise if this needs disabling or should it be defragged? I look forward to your reply. A most informative video. Thanks and regards, Joe
This is a good idea too when running virtual machines on an SSD. VM's usually assume the current drive (virtual drive) is a hard drive, not SSD. Some VM's can tell the different, some can't. Good call Bri!
In regards to the disk defrag tool, DO NOT disable this in Windows 8.1. 8.1 recognises that it's dealing with an SSD and instead of defragmenting it will automatically Trim the drive for you.
MrBrodernafluff If Windows 8/8.1 is recognizing SSD like HDD, go to Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Performance Information and Tools and then run the assesement! Windows will look for the speed of the HDD/SSD and since SSDs do not have rotational speed, Windows can recognize which is SSD and which HDD!
Sir Platform You, it;s not good for the safety to run multiple anti virus programmes or others of that sort. Yes, it also slows down, but they can cancel eachother out. Better get 1 good one instead of more less. i use NOD32 for years now, never had a virus or anything like that and i never ever used another one besides that one. My dad does and he always has shit on his PC.
You should also make a tutorial on how to use a ramdisk for the windows temp folders and for the browser temporary cache. Not only you get insane write speeds but you also increase the SSD life expectancy. You can also leave like 8-10% of the disk as unallocated space. This operation is called over-provisioning and it makes the drive basic operations much faster. The SSD will get slower the less free space it has.
I personally would disagree with these suggestions. 1. SSD's can use defrag but not as often as a mechanical drive. Defrag the SSD about once a month. 2. To ensure that the TRIM is enabled check the setting in the BIOS to ensure AHCI is set on. No need to update the firmware in the SSD as suggested. 3 Do not disable the superfetch or prefetch settings, doing so will tend to slow down the computer. 4. Do not turn off the pagefile as some applications (Eg. Photoshop) require the virtual memory to run properly despite whether you have 16Gb of RAM or not. (Unless someone else has any convincing arguments)
The thing about defraging ssd's isn't that it will wear out your ssd, that is only a problem with old drives or if you defragged very frequently. But its not going to give you much boost in performance, because they already perform very well in accessing poorly organized data, compared to hdd's which are limited by reading from a head.
What defraging does, simply said, its moving data on mechanical drive, literally, physically closer to each other so that the read/write needle would need to move shorter distance and that would increase hdd performance. On SSD, however, defrag have no positive effect since it doesn't have any moving part to which defrag would help shorten its moving distance, on contrary, it uses up read/write "limit" of SSD and just shortens its life.
TinyWords You obviously have no idea about the workings inside an SSD therefore your "advice" to defrag an SSD is retarded at best! Then again you know better than SSD manufacturers. lol.
+ddd228 Or never since SSDs don't run like a HDD. They deliberately fragment as there is no seek time when attempting to access data. There is something wear leveling which is to deliberately fragment data around the SSD. This is because SSDs have a limited format/write life cycle so it is done to help the drive last longer. Golden rule, turn off fragmentation on SSDs for longevity.
I really like your videos so thanks for uploading. Just one suggestion though, can you please say why we should be doing each of these things like disabling superfetch and defrag on an SSD as some people don't know the reasoning behind it. Cheers.
Hi, thank you for the video. By the way I think It is wrong to use "fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify 0" to enable TRIM. It should be "SET" instead of "QUERY" in the command. The correct command for enabling TRIM is " fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0"
+Kamal Ahmed Hi Kamal, I actually put down fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify instead of fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0. It said something has been deleted. Does that cause a problem to the computer?
+Yohasakura I think it will not create any problem to your computer. You just need to use the correct command again to active Trim functionality. So you can open your cmd.exe with administrator right and then you can use this command without quote "fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0" and everything should be fine .
A question: If I have a HHD 1 tera of 2 tera......defraging might become cumbersome, is it adviceable to partition them let's say in 200G or 300G partitions, that way I can defrag each partition individually only when needed and defraging becomes faster compared to defraging the whole thing in one swoop?
I still have an old dual core pos 4 gig ddr2 ram. I upgraded the hard drive to solid state from the old platter drive and put windows 8 on it. what a mega speed boost!!! bring on win8.1
Hey, are you talking about 16Gb od RAM or 16Gb of free ROM? (You computer has only 2Gb of RAM, and you do not say the word RAM in your sentences, so it's sort of confussing... sorry). Can you please clearify? Thank's in advance and btw a thank's for your tips.
Hello Britec Does this video about optimize your ssd still apply today. I have a new computer and applied thes changes. Also Edge is very slow, seen a fix where it was suggested optimize the ssd drive, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks John
I just got a SSD yesterday. The defrag was already 'never run". I also have a standard 1 tb drive as a secondary drive for storage... these actions will effect it also? Are there any of these steps I should not do because it will effect my standard drive?
if you have 16gb or more a page file is wasted space on the ssd, I have 32Gb ram in my main PC and have yet to run out of memory, the most I have managed to use is some 28gb of ram and that is when I have far too many VMs open. In machines that have 16gb of ram I tend to limit the page file size depending on what the machine is going to be used for, a web / office type machine I turn the page file off, when the machine is going to render video I give it no more than 8gb of page file. So far I have had no problems what so ever.
I accidentally input fsutil behavior set disabledeletenot instead of fsutil behvior query disabledeletenotify. Is it going to cause a problem to the computer? I just checked the hard drive. The drive has been free up so much space after entering one above and also fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify.
I have had the swap file disabled under windows 7 for three years now without problems. Yet I only have 8Gb of RAM. Virtual memory is an anachronism now.
Hi Brian I have just upgraded my two HDD with the new Seagate Hybrid Drive which is both SSD and Drum... Does this advice apply to these also? Best Regards Paul
Links are now dead, I guess we will never know. Joking aside, the information from those links are wrong/invalid (and I guess this video?) as we now know ssds are more durable than we were lead to believe and still improvements are being made. Still rocking with OCZ vertex 4, as a main drive with windows 7, that I got from 2012.
im not sure what can i do..as when i TYPE CMD...Instead Of My Screen Showing (( C:\Windows\System32> )) My Screen Says (( C:\Users\Home> ))?? WHAT Now ? What Next? ? PLEASE Help as im afraid with mine Saying or Starting Out Showing Totally Different Text that if i add that Same onto Continue onto to what mine Says thatll itll screw Something Up On top of Not Working? Please give Me a Know for Sure Workable Solution ?? THANK YOU BRITEC :-)
bro ntfs it says =0 and also says ReFs not set.and i am getting speed of 220&100 on wd green 120 gb.THERE IS NO OPTION OF AHCI IN BIOS.DO TELL HOW TO GET NORMAL SPEED AND GET AHCI
STEP 2: PASTE WHAT COMMAND after using CMD and running as administrator? YOU pasted the action command command, I have nothing to paste. Again you go too fast so please explain where we get the command to paste.
does anybody know, how to improve my windows 8.1, for better performance, meaning which services under MsConfig can i disable? I do not required any back up services, or similar stuff, as a make my backups constantly manually.
the description on super fetch says that it maintains and improves system performance over time, which poses the question why would I want to disable it? Especially if I'm only using an SSD as a boot drive
Every time you run an application in your PC, a Prefetch file which contains information about the files loaded by the application is created by Windows operating system. The information in the Prefetch file is used for optimizing the loading time of the application in the next time that you run it. SuperFetch attempts to predict which applications you will launch next and preloads all of the necessary data into memory. Its prediction algorithm is superior and can predict which next 3 applications you will launch by what time in a day. In short SuperFetch and Prefetch are Windows Storage Management technologies that provide fast access to data on traditional hard drives. On Solid State Drives they result in unnecessary write operations.
That's fair enough, I have a plug in on my browser that stops any annotations etc so that'll be why I can't see it. It was just an observation. Cheers!
hi i run the cmd as an administrator......then what i shall do i dont get it ?(we gonna tipe in a pick comand...) this is what i dont get it....can someone explain me pls what to do >?
What IF anything at all will the last change / tweak do to my SSD / System if I only have 12GB of Memory and not 16GB? Is it still worth it to do it or leave alone?
Don't bother, it provides very little benefit with a SSD to be frank. Additionally, I would not turn off virtual memory as this can cause system instabilities and incompatibilities. If you have a good amount of RAM and don't frequently use it all up, you could try limiting it to a fixed 1 or 2 GB. The only advantage I can see is that you don't fill up your SSD with a massive paging file. A little one won't hurt. Keeping freespace available (or over provisioning) on your SSD allows it to do better garbage collection and improves the durability of the drive by not having to overwrite the same sectors constantly.
the last step, what if, i have less than 16gb of memory and when you clicked properties for your computer, you have 2. also, mine says less than 400 megabyte instead of 200
Chunky, if you have less than 16Gb AND you have a mechanical drive; set your page file to use the mechanical drive. 1. Follow Brian's instruction to turn it off for the SSD, and reboot. (Not necessary, but best practice.) 2. Go back in, and the set up a page file on the mechanical drive. 3. Old school theory that some disagree with, yet I feel is proper; set the min and max equal to you RAM, so if you have 4Gb, set the min/max to 4096. 3a. Do NOT let Windows manage it for you as it will grow and shrink and become fragmented. Doing it the way I described here will create a one chunk file that will not change in size. I cannot fathom why Brian left this out for those with less than 16Gb of RAM, but he may have covered it in an older video. 4. One huge SSD saver not listed in this tutorial, turn off the hibernate file. 5. Open an admin CMD window and type in POWERCFG -H OFF 5a. This will remove the ability for your machine to go to sleep; however, that is a pretty useless feature unless you're on a laptop that you primarily run from the battery, IMHO any ways. 5b. I have never bothered to look beyond M$ saying you cannot redirect the hibernate file to another drive like you can with the page file. So, I just turn it off and forget it.
Brian, Your timing of this Video couldn't have been better. Today is the day I feel the need for speed and am going to install my new 240 GB Kingston Hyper X 3K SSD. At $180 for the bundle kit with Acronis, I couldn't pass any longer. Your Video's are the best on the Tube. Much thanks, and Cheers. VT
This has always been my go to video for SSD Optimizing after a fresh install! Thanks:)
By damage Britec means this is because SSD drives have a read and write limit which is quite high but defragging a drive will be reading and writing all the time, meaning it will shorten the life span of the SSD drastically.
Thanks for the kind words and support. and enjoy you new 240 GB Kingston Hyper X 3K SSD, it will fly.
take the tick out of run schedule scans recommended.
SSD have wear and tear write cycles which means the more you write to the drive you shorten the life of it. So by by doing these steps it reduces the amount of writes to that SSD drive.
Hi Paul, Turn off Windows automatic defrag. Like SSDs and sometimes disabling super-fetch can improve performance. Hope this helps you out, all the best Brian
After watching all of your videos....I need these things. I trust you.
Brian, here are more tips:
For services you can disabled this ones:
sc config wsearch start= disabled
sc config defragsvc start= disabled
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters -> LargeSystemCache 0x0
Delete these folders if it is disabled
%windir%\Prefetch
%programdata%\Microsoft\Search
For small SSD's
powercfg -h off
Set SSD not in sleep:
powercfg -x disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -x disk-timeout-dc 0
I always said if it's britec is worth to watch
There is a link in my video description that will answer all your questions, I did not go to deep into it because trying to keep video short and sweet.
A great reminder for checking new SSD systems.
Absolutely love ur vids. Some of the most useful anywhere. 🤙👍🤙👍👏👏👏
All SSD have wear and tear write cycles, so it will depend what the SSD read and write cycles are.
Very useful Brian, since I'm building a system this week with an SSD. I won't have to do the last step because the system is only going to have 8GB
With the new SSD's you don't need to get too crazy here. Turning off your Sleep mode, Defrag off, turning off system restore, are good things too. A big thing would be going to your power configurations and setting the power options and setting it up for high performance. Many people that buy the newest SSD's are not going to know all this stuff and yet they are far more durable now then they use to be. :)
441meatloaf
Not if the OS is backed up on an external storage device and if the computer is configured correctly for the running OS, windows will not crash. But why toil to run crapware windows when Linux requires no bloatware?
I have a system image of windows 7 backed up on my TB hard drive. You really don't need or want system restore when you have an SSD. I mean of course mine can handle it. Just it opens up a lot of space on your SSD when your not using it. Its totally not necessary. :)
I disabled superfetch and my computer and ran slower than a snail on a box of Nytol and booze. I had to set back to manual and got the speed back.
at 4:48 he starts speaking fast, so here's what I got from it. Regedit>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>SYSTEM>>CurrentControlSet>>Control>>Session Manager>>Memory Management>>PrefetchParameters>>EnablePrefetcher. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Hi, at about 2:53 you show imo the disabling of defrag for SSD, under this is the system information(?) please advise if this needs disabling or should it be defragged? I look forward to your reply. A most informative video. Thanks and regards, Joe
This is a good idea too when running virtual machines on an SSD. VM's usually assume the current drive (virtual drive) is a hard drive, not SSD. Some VM's can tell the different, some can't. Good call Bri!
In regards to the disk defrag tool, DO NOT disable this in Windows 8.1.
8.1 recognises that it's dealing with an SSD and instead of defragmenting it will automatically Trim the drive for you.
good information, do you have a good source were i can read about it?
MrBrodernafluff If Windows 8/8.1 is recognizing SSD like HDD, go to Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Performance Information and Tools and then run the assesement! Windows will look for the speed of the HDD/SSD and since SSDs do not have rotational speed, Windows can recognize which is SSD and which HDD!
His desktop is the definition of virus paranoid.
Sir Platform Yea lol, and all those programms installed simultaniously will not help in any way..
Lync Only slow it down, better safe than sorry.
Sir Platform Better do some research about installing multiple safety programmes :)
Lync Me or Britec?
Sir Platform You, it;s not good for the safety to run multiple anti virus programmes or others of that sort. Yes, it also slows down, but they can cancel eachother out. Better get 1 good one instead of more less. i use NOD32 for years now, never had a virus or anything like that and i never ever used another one besides that one. My dad does and he always has shit on his PC.
You should also make a tutorial on how to use a ramdisk for the windows temp folders and for the browser temporary cache. Not only you get insane write speeds but you also increase the SSD life expectancy. You can also leave like 8-10% of the disk as unallocated space. This operation is called over-provisioning and it makes the drive basic operations much faster. The SSD will get slower the less free space it has.
I personally would disagree with these suggestions.
1. SSD's can use defrag but not as often as a mechanical drive. Defrag the SSD about once a month.
2. To ensure that the TRIM is enabled check the setting in the BIOS to ensure AHCI is set on. No need to update the firmware in the SSD as suggested.
3 Do not disable the superfetch or prefetch settings, doing so will tend to slow down the computer.
4. Do not turn off the pagefile as some applications (Eg. Photoshop) require the virtual memory to run properly despite whether you have 16Gb of RAM or not.
(Unless someone else has any convincing arguments)
The thing about defraging ssd's isn't that it will wear out your ssd, that is only a problem with old drives or if you defragged very frequently. But its not going to give you much boost in performance, because they already perform very well in accessing poorly organized data, compared to hdd's which are limited by reading from a head.
What defraging does, simply said, its moving data on mechanical drive, literally, physically closer to each other so that the read/write needle would need to move shorter distance and that would increase hdd performance.
On SSD, however, defrag have no positive effect since it doesn't have any moving part to which defrag would help shorten its moving distance, on contrary, it uses up read/write "limit" of SSD and just shortens its life.
TinyWords You obviously have no idea about the workings inside an SSD therefore your "advice" to defrag an SSD is retarded at best! Then again you know better than SSD manufacturers. lol.
Good information here. TURN off the scheduled defrag if you are running a SSD! Do it manually when you feel like it. Once a month is fine.
+ddd228 Or never since SSDs don't run like a HDD. They deliberately fragment as there is no seek time when attempting to access data. There is something wear leveling which is to deliberately fragment data around the SSD. This is because SSDs have a limited format/write life cycle so it is done to help the drive last longer.
Golden rule, turn off fragmentation on SSDs for longevity.
Thanks for adding these.
I have seen people use no pagefile on 8gb but I think it becomes unstable myself.
Good sound advice - Thanks Brian - Have a good week.
Cheers Rob, they are becoming more affordable now days, I wonder if it will ever replace the mechanical hard drive?
watching this, much helped me. Thanks
You're welcome!
Thanks for not forgetting XP users.
I really like your videos so thanks for uploading. Just one suggestion though, can you please say why we should be doing each of these things like disabling superfetch and defrag on an SSD as some people don't know the reasoning behind it. Cheers.
At 1:41 That's the SEARCH, not the RUN bar / I typed defrag into the RUN box, a CMD window flashed briefly.oh my god the tiny details....
I know this is 5 years old but a mistake is a mistake and someone might get confused.
Brilliant and well-presented as usual.
Great info Bri.
Well done, and very timely with prices Finally coming down.
Hi, thank you for the video. By the way I think It is wrong to use "fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify 0" to enable TRIM.
It should be "SET" instead of "QUERY" in the command.
The correct command for enabling TRIM is " fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0"
It helps to know sql
+Kamal Ahmed Hi Kamal, I actually put down fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify instead of fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0. It said something has been deleted. Does that cause a problem to the computer?
+Yohasakura I think it will not create any problem to your computer. You just need to use the correct command again to active Trim functionality. So you can open your cmd.exe with administrator right and then you can use this command without quote "fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0" and everything should be fine .
Thank you for your sweet response.
A question: If I have a HHD 1 tera of 2 tera......defraging might become cumbersome, is it adviceable to partition them let's say in 200G or 300G partitions, that way I can defrag each partition individually only when needed and defraging becomes faster compared to defraging the whole thing in one swoop?
Clear and sensible explanation.
I know ah lot boy computer but you my friend knows everything
What about the intel matrix storage technology? is good idea or bad idea?
How long does an SSD last? does it have a longer or shorter lifespan than a regular HDD?
Cheers John
suscribed... nice video, heard of this but i never did it cause I was unsure, nice explanation, hope to see more videos like this...
Try again! I installed 24 G of ram, but my system only 'sees' 12 G. Does the bios need updating? Anyway it was a great video, many thanks.
Damnit, I love it when he says "schedule."
Fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
Thank you for the cmd command...
thanks
I am new to this, why would you disable ReadyBoost and ReadDrive?
I still have an old dual core pos 4 gig ddr2 ram. I upgraded the hard drive to solid state from the old platter drive and put windows 8 on it. what a mega speed boost!!! bring on win8.1
hello I have the new update windows 10 1809.. I don't see superfetch in services or in the regedit...what to do, should I be worried
Its not Superfetch anymore. Search for SysMain (its the same thing - they just renamed it to actual service name)
Many thanks, always well presented
Hey, are you talking about 16Gb od RAM or 16Gb of free ROM? (You computer has only 2Gb of RAM, and you do not say the word RAM in your sentences, so it's sort of confussing... sorry). Can you please clearify? Thank's in advance and btw a thank's for your tips.
can i do this for external drive to
Thanks.
Easy and great review, thanks for sharing
thanks sir! :) it also fixed the Win 7 logo animation stops issue at startup as well :)
Hello Britec
Does this video about optimize your ssd still apply today. I have a new computer and applied thes changes. Also Edge is very slow, seen a fix where it was suggested optimize the ssd drive, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks John
No
I just got a SSD yesterday. The defrag was already 'never run". I also have a standard 1 tb drive as a secondary drive for storage... these actions will effect it also? Are there any of these steps I should not do because it will effect my standard drive?
+Galimir Nund If you turn of schedule it will slow down the 1 tb drive, so just make it only defrag for the 1 tb drive.
OK...thanks :)
why whould you switch off pagefiling? it is a backup for you pc, if you dont have pagefill, and you ram is full, you pc shuts down or freezes
if you have 16gb or more a page file is wasted space on the ssd, I have 32Gb ram in my main PC and have yet to run out of memory, the most I have managed to use is some 28gb of ram and that is when I have far too many VMs open.
In machines that have 16gb of ram I tend to limit the page file size depending on what the machine is going to be used for, a web / office type machine I turn the page file off, when the machine is going to render video I give it no more than 8gb of page file.
So far I have had no problems what so ever.
Good and clear video !
I accidentally input fsutil behavior set disabledeletenot instead of fsutil behvior query disabledeletenotify. Is it going to cause a problem to the computer? I just checked the hard drive. The drive has been free up so much space after entering one above and also fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify.
Great advice:D. Thanks so much for the information. This could stop my bsod i'm having on Win 7.
Thank you for the clear informartive video.
I have had the swap file disabled under windows 7 for three years now without problems. Yet I only have 8Gb of RAM. Virtual memory is an anachronism now.
I subscribe months ago and you is very smart my friend
Hi Brian I have just upgraded my two HDD with the new Seagate Hybrid Drive which is both SSD and Drum... Does this advice apply to these also? Best Regards Paul
I did all your steps but I still got one question, do I need to install or update some drivers for my Ssd samsung pro evo ? Im new suscriber :)
Brian,
Will these work with a Raid 10 of 4 SSD drives..? I want to build a computer with these parameters...
lentmain yes
So technically all 4 steps were completed and the additional step @ 6:09 isn't necessary ?
Forget that last comment, does this same method work for Windows 10?
some of my micorsoft services have stop working do I turn them back on please help me
Can you go over how with an SSD + HDD I would defrag only the HDD? Thanks
Simple, shedul only the HDD
Links are now dead, I guess we will never know.
Joking aside, the information from those links are wrong/invalid (and I guess this video?) as we now know ssds are more durable than we were lead to believe and still improvements are being made. Still rocking with OCZ vertex 4, as a main drive with windows 7, that I got from 2012.
Brian is this ok to do this with a normal HDD dive or is this a stupid question .disable it i mean.
thank you for this video. it's very much appreciated
Thank you very much! ♥
how can u switch start-ups between your ssd and hdd without having to open up the tower and unplug the other drive. ???
BIOS.
Useful, I didn't have all the settings, thx VM!
im not sure what can i do..as when i TYPE CMD...Instead Of My Screen Showing (( C:\Windows\System32> ))
My Screen Says (( C:\Users\Home> ))?? WHAT Now ? What Next?
? PLEASE Help as im afraid with mine Saying or Starting Out Showing Totally Different Text that if i add that Same onto Continue onto to what mine Says thatll itll screw Something Up On top of Not Working?
Please give Me a Know for Sure Workable Solution ??
THANK YOU BRITEC :-)
Dw it won’t change anything. If you still want the same text as him, just type “dir C:\Windows\System32”
bro ntfs it says =0 and also says ReFs not set.and i am getting speed of 220&100 on wd green 120 gb.THERE IS NO OPTION OF AHCI IN BIOS.DO TELL HOW TO GET NORMAL SPEED AND GET AHCI
STEP 2: PASTE WHAT COMMAND after using CMD and running as administrator? YOU pasted the action command command, I have nothing to paste. Again you go too fast so please explain where we get the command to paste.
does anybody know, how to improve my windows 8.1, for better performance, meaning which services under MsConfig can i disable? I do not required any back up services, or similar stuff, as a make my backups constantly manually.
Intel 320 Series, plextor and Samsung I like
trim cmd works only with sata ssd's not usb ssd's like external ones. and not if you are running windows 10 .
DON'T DO THIS ON WINDOWS 10, ONLY SLOWING YOUR PC.
THE ONLY THING THAT WAS RIGHT ONLY DISSABLE DEFRAG
what does the superfetch and prefetch do?
the description on super fetch says that it maintains and improves system performance over time, which poses the question why would I want to disable it? Especially if I'm only using an SSD as a boot drive
Every time you run an application in your PC, a Prefetch file which contains information about the files loaded by the application is created by Windows operating system. The information in the Prefetch file is used for optimizing the loading time of the application in the next time that you run it. SuperFetch attempts to predict which applications you will launch next and preloads all of the necessary data into memory. Its prediction algorithm is superior and can predict which next 3 applications you will launch by what time in a day.
In short SuperFetch and Prefetch are Windows Storage Management technologies that provide fast access to data on traditional hard drives. On Solid State Drives they result in unnecessary write operations.
That's fair enough, I have a plug in on my browser that stops any annotations etc so that'll be why I can't see it. It was just an observation. Cheers!
hi i run the cmd as an administrator......then what i shall do i dont get it ?(we gonna tipe in a pick comand...) this is what i dont get it....can someone explain me pls what to do >?
HELLO BRITEC09, SO JUST WONDERING IF I CAN OPTIMIZE MY PCI-E SSD JUST LIKE A REGULAR SSD?
spectacular video thanks.
dude i love you intro its amazing did you make it?
Thanks for the tips. :)
My C disk does not appear in the Disk Defragmenter. Help?
What IF anything at all will the last change / tweak do to my SSD / System if I only have 12GB of Memory and not 16GB? Is it still worth it to do it or leave alone?
Don't bother, it provides very little benefit with a SSD to be frank. Additionally, I would not turn off virtual memory as this can cause system instabilities and incompatibilities. If you have a good amount of RAM and don't frequently use it all up, you could try limiting it to a fixed 1 or 2 GB. The only advantage I can see is that you don't fill up your SSD with a massive paging file. A little one won't hurt. Keeping freespace available (or over provisioning) on your SSD allows it to do better garbage collection and improves the durability of the drive by not having to overwrite the same sectors constantly.
sorry for delay..but thank for reply ...Sometimes better to leave things alone ;-)
the last step, what if, i have less than 16gb of memory and when you clicked properties for your computer, you have 2. also, mine says less than 400 megabyte instead of 200
Chunky, if you have less than 16Gb AND you have a mechanical drive; set your page file to use the mechanical drive.
1. Follow Brian's instruction to turn it off for the SSD, and reboot. (Not necessary, but best practice.)
2. Go back in, and the set up a page file on the mechanical drive.
3. Old school theory that some disagree with, yet I feel is proper; set the min and max equal to you RAM, so if you have 4Gb, set the min/max to 4096.
3a. Do NOT let Windows manage it for you as it will grow and shrink and become fragmented. Doing it the way I described here will create a one chunk file that will not change in size.
I cannot fathom why Brian left this out for those with less than 16Gb of RAM, but he may have covered it in an older video.
4. One huge SSD saver not listed in this tutorial, turn off the hibernate file.
5. Open an admin CMD window and type in POWERCFG -H OFF
5a. This will remove the ability for your machine to go to sleep; however, that is a pretty useless feature unless you're on a laptop that you primarily run from the battery, IMHO any ways.
5b. I have never bothered to look beyond M$ saying you cannot redirect the hibernate file to another drive like you can with the page file. So, I just turn it off and forget it.
can that actually improve the read and write speeds for an SSD ?
Sultan Kabboha NO, these are all measures to prolong the lifespan.
You don't need 16gb ram to safely disable page files, I had it disabled on 4gb without running into any problems.
What do you mean optimize? Make it last longer?
I have ssd and could you walk me thru windows 10 install
Nice guide !!