Windows 7 - SSD Optimization

Before you begin this guide I will assume you know how to disable UAC and have already done so.

Disable / Move the Swap File

• WINKEY + PRTSCN to access the System control panel item.
• Click Advanced system settings on the left panel.
• Under the Advanced tab click Settings... under Performance.
• Under the Advanced tab again click Change....
• Deselect Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.

If you have 8GB+ RAM

• Select your SSD, select No paging file, and click Template:Set.
  (Do the same for any other hard drive that has a page file set.)

If you have less than 8GB of RAM

• Select your SSD, select No paging file, and click Template:Set.
  Select a SATA drive, select Custom size, and set it to 4096 - 6144.

Disable System Restore

• WINKEY + PRTSCN to access the System control panel item.
• Click Advanced system settings on the left panel.
• Under the System Protection tab select your SSD and click Configure....
• Select Turn off system protection and press OK.
  (Confirm any warning to delete current restores.)

Enable TRIM & Disable Hibernate

• WINKEY + R to bring up the run dialog.
• Run cmd.
  You should see Administrator in the window title
• Execute the command fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0
  You should see the response "DisableDeleteNotify = 0".
• Execute the command powercfg -h off.

Disable Indexing

• WINKEY + E to open an explorer window.
• Select Computer from the tree on the left.
• Right-click your SSD and select Properties.
• Deselect Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties. and click OK.
• Click OK again to apply changes to all recursively.
  Accept any privilege escalation warnings.

Enable Write Cache

• WINKEY + PRTSCN to access the System control panel item.
• Click Device manager on the left panel.
• Find your SSD, right-click and select Properties.
• Navigate to the Policies tab.
• Make sure Enable write caching on the device is checked.
• Also make sure Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device is checked.
• Click OK to save the changes.

Disable Disk Defragmentation

• In the Start-Menu right-click Computer and select Manage.
• Navigate to Services and Applications > Services.
• Right-click Disk Defragmenter and select Properties.
• Under Startup type choose Disabled from the drop-down menu.
• Click OK to save.

Disable Prefetch & Superfetch

• WINKEY + R to bring up the run dialog.
• Run regedit to open the registry editor.
  
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters.
• Double-click EnablePrefetcher and change the value from 3 to 0 and click OK.
• Double-click EnableSuperfetch and change the value from 3 to 0 and click OK.