Optimize your Windows for SSD

Feb 6, 2012 00:00 · 89 words · 1 minute read Windows

A few thing we can optimize in Windows 7 for longer SSD’s live.

Enable TRIM in Windows 7 To enable TRIM:

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0

To disable TRIM:

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 1

To check TRIM:

fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

Disable paging (if possible - depends how much memory system has)

Enable Large System Cache

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
 "LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001

Disable the NTFS Last Access Time Stamp

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
 "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001

Disable Boot Tracing

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
 "EnableBootTrace"=dword:00000000

Disable Windows Indexing

Disable Windows Defrag in Scheduler

Disable Thumbnail Cache

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
 "NoThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001