Best SSD tweaks for Windows 7

Posted by Nick Berardi on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Nick Berardi
Published on 2010-05-05T13:31:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 14:59 UTC
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I have seen many articles about tweaking an SSD, but many of them seem outdated, or too broad (read all Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 general tweaks). And I know that Windows 7 has been specifically tweaked for SSD by the Windows team, so I don't want to do something that was written for Windows XP in mind and end up circumventing something the Windows team has specifically designed in to Windows 7.

So my question is what are the best SSD tweaks for Windows 7 that you have found to get the performance out of your drive?

I hope to make a comprehensive list in the answers below so there won't be so much disinformation in the forums about what to do and what not to do. Here are a few that I see posted up on the forums alot, and some questions to get the discussion started:

  1. Disabling Superfetch. Yes or No
  2. Disabling Page File or limiting it to a really small size such as 500 MB.
  3. Disabling Indexing. Yes or No
  4. Disabling Defragmenting. Yes or No

What are your thoughts do you have any that have worked for you? When providing an answer please do your best to back it up with a reason and possibly some documentation from MSDN, TechNet, or another credible source.

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