Windows 7 Tip - Optimize and make your SSD drive last longer

[853midnight]

damn good, im getting addicted to your work dude.

[rabcor]

thanks bro.

[Tsukiyoml]

how do i know whether my laptop's harddisk is hdd or ssd?

[wevenhuis]

Dear PCWizKid, What is the reason that stopping superfetch and diskdefragmenter improves the life of an SSD? What about shadowcopying? should this be disabled as well?

Thanks.

[ItWasntMe456]

is there a way to erase an ssd?

[Films4You]

@ItWasntMe456 Do you mean Format, that will wipe it

[ItWasntMe456]

@Films4You i've heard you have to reset it with a program. from what i understand, a format won't do that.

[Films4You]

@ItWasntMe456

Remeber Format will remove everthing, including Windows if you have that on it.

I would use a MS DOS disk to Format or windows if not the Main boot disk with Windows on it.

There is software that will write Zero's to all Disk tracks, etc..

There is software that will do a secure Format that even the FBI will find hard to recover files off, if this is a worry.

The Widows Install disk can also Format Hard Drives before installing Windows

By Why ease anyway?

[Films4You]

@Films4You  Formatting SSD may cause some ware to the memory used, same as disk defragging

[ItWasntMe456]

@Films4You dude, that works only for a regular hard drive. with ssd's, they have to be re-set. you need a program that sends a command to the memory controller. am i the only one who understands this?

[Films4You]

@ItWasntMe456

Great Information, please post a video response of how to do the actions you take to this and I will show it.

[seths1997]

probably won't want to disable defragmenter service if you have mixed ssd/sata on your system like me. i just went into task schedule and disabled defrag from running at 1am every tuesday. or you could just change the command line there from -c (all volumes) to specific drive letters to exclude the ssd

[xXCoDwGoDXx]

I want the cursor pack please. I love your cursors

[TheTony111222]

is there a simler command for windows xp

[coijoi]

nice"

[xfx6]

@KK305955 yeah,there are a lot of services tha u not use....

[jjamendoza]

So superfetch can be too much for an SSD? What about a regular SATA (3.5' inch) HDD?

[PostiveMindBodySoul]

If you disable superfetch, READY BOOST won't work properly.

[whiteoreoxx]

@PostiveMindBodySoul That is worthless anyway.

[PostiveMindBodySoul]

@whiteoreoxx Doesn't do anything for me, I have registry tweaks and hardware that makes my machine fly. Besides your machine won't respond quicker just because you ad more ram or better cpu, although somewhat. I have found websites with loads of tweaks, and made my machine fast, matter a fact I had a p3 laptop running win 7 and worked quickly although I had to disable visual styles, that and hunt down drivers and write my own.

[PhotoShopChannel]

@KK305955 he has noob

[2454014]

Love this videos please keep them coming.

[SirGomez81]

nice tip.

[yogman10]

Don't say "SSD drive"!! XP By saying that, you are saying "Solid State Drive Drive"...

[onailculThemaster]

can you do a how to build HTPC, you said long ago that you would make one plz answer this question. thanks

[123pvpworld]

if you run HDD and SSD what to do?

[LordReserei01]

If you're like me and have a 64GB SSD plus 1TB or more HDD - move your page file, restore points and recycle bin to the HDD to cut down on read/writes as well as save some space on the SSD. Direct folders like "Documents", "Downloads", "Music" etc to the HDD also and maybe setup a "Program Files (x86)" folder for games too.

I have my 1TB partitioned into "My Documents", "Music, Videos, Downloads" and "Games, Fraps and VMs".

[bara242]

thanks sdude

[TheYusuf1653]

can you send me your cursor pack to me please?

[maxoomen]

Why am I watching this? I don't have a SSD. I guess cause PCWizKid is awesome :P

[SirGomez81]

@maxoomen maybe.... I just like to extend my knowledge for computers.

[GamezFerDayzz]

@maxoomen

I don't, but my laptop does.....

[baxizach]

i could go for a little more detail on this video but thanks for the tips, as always! :D

[crzykid71]

@pranksterENG they fail if there isn't ample time of leaving your system idle for garbage collection to run & if trim isn't enabled invalid data won't be wrote over so write speed will slow then clog up without the algorithms running to keep the drive in check.

[crzykid71]

Disable paging for the ssd, make sure ahci is on, check through cmd that trim is enabled if not enable it. If you still have a hdd send your temporary internet/cache files exclusively to it that will save many read/writes from surfing the web. You can also turn off system restore on your ssd & turn it on only for your hdd - data & backup that will save even more read/writes..

[magzire]

@crzykid71 :tup

[MrDucktaper]

Just got my SSD today^^ this is cool!

[Legoboss2727cp]

Nice!

[cosmica]

what does Superfetch do? Mine is enabled and I want to be sure before I disable. thanks

[LordReserei01]

It's an advanced version of Prefetch. Superfetch has an AI that predicts what program you'll want to run and helps speed up application startup times on traditional HDDs - also uses unnecessary reads. So it's pointless to run it if you have apps installed on a SSD and kinda bad for it's health.

[TheGregaM]

This is stupid. Defrag is automaticly turned off on SSD and SuperFetch uses RAM to cache most commonly used progam data and is NECESSARY for fast system! No SSD is near as rast as RAM!

Why use SSD when you don't use it's speed for fast prefeltching program data to SSD??

[crzykid71]

@TheGregaM I didn't turn off superfetch. I did though make a Ramdisk, a partition of some of my ram much like a "drive" & i'm using it for my systems paging/caching & on certain programs that use a bit of page file my read speed for my ssd increased 52%. yes ram is fast :D 

[mindharvester]

too bad i have 5 tear waranty

[ankanbads]

too bad i dont have ssd.. -_-

[skunkwithfleas]

AHCI should also be turned on.

[metallfreak15]

Hmm can't find the Services in the search option. Sorry for my dumb question, but how can I find it Manually?

[atersky]

@metallfreak15 right click Computer, click Manage, you should see it in the list on the right

[metallfreak15]

@atersky thanks mate =)

[VipFightFun]

@metallfreak15 then type "services.msc" ( no ")

[vesleengen]

If you have Intel SSD then you can download the Intel SSD Toolbox witch fixes everything for you.

[wwmitchelww1]

@scuz55 It Has Just Been Uploaded Wait a day and its has 1000+

[alex43111]

do you have some tips like this for normal HDD?

[Teldara]

Disabling Superfetch in current generation SSDs don't do much any more. Current generation SSDs (with firmware updates) superfetch is negligible.

[Scouter98]

one of the best channels on youtube!!!!

[AtanasiuGabriel]

great tips ! keep it up !

[ricardogommeren]

Your videos are so handy. I'm getting a new pc with an SSD tomorrow lol.

[taifun2grafiks]

great, shame I don't have an SSD =[