SSD arriving today, what's the deal with setting them up?

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Hey guys, built my first gaming PC a few weeks back with help from lots of people on here, all working like a dream. The only thing that didn't ship from my original overclockers order was the SSD, bit of a shame but still didn't stop me from getting set up with the standard HDD.

Now my SSD is arriving today, never had one before so not quite sure of the best way to set it up. Shall I disconnect all the other drives and the install Windows on it, I vaguely remember reading something about making sure BIOS was set up for SSD?

Thanks.
 
If you're having it as your boot drive. Disconnect all other drives, connect your ssd, go into bios and enable AHCI mode, install windows then attach the rest of your drives again. Lovely.
 
double check windows defragmenters auto run crap is disabled.

windows would have happily defraged my drive even though im told when it detects an ssd its supposed to turn its schedule off.
 
yeh turn off drive indexing as well.

there are also other things you can do is u want to make it boot super fast.

If you don't use hibernation disable it in command prompt as it saves about 5GB of SSD space.
 
The list of things I always do on my SSD after installation are

Turn Off or Shrink the Hibernation File:
Disable or Shrink System Protection (make backup DVD instead)
Turn off drive indexing
Turn Off or Shrink Page file
Install newest SATA and chipset drivers
Change power options
Check to see if the TRIM command is being issued:
Check Defragmentation schedule is disabled
Disable Prefetch and Superfetch
Move user folder locations to Secondary HDD
Disable unneeded services
Disable UAC
Speed up Shut down time
Speed up the Menu Show Delay Time
 
I also disable system restore,delete win updates backup files and temp files together with hibernation off on windows that gives you extra GB space.

The reason was that on a 60gb ssd after win install and updates a mere 10gb was left for programs and games.
 
passey89 said:
The list of things I always do on my SSD after installation are

Disable UAC
Speed up Shut down time
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How do you do these ones? Thanks :)

ilovetechno said:
I also disable system restore,delete win updates backup files and temp files together with hibernation off on windows that gives you extra GB space.

The reason was that on a 60gb ssd after win install and updates a mere 10gb was left for programs and games.
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How do you delete the update backup files? No downside to doing this?
 
azibux1 said:
How do you do these ones? Thanks :)



How do you delete the update backup files? No downside to doing this?
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Disable UAC:
Stops the annoying popups that ask "Are you sure you want to do something?"

Open the Start Menu, in the search line, type UAC and press Enter.
Move slider to "Never notify."
Click the "OK" button.
Click "Yes."
Restart.

Speed up Shut down time:
If you have problems with programs from your computer shutting down too quickly, then repeat the steps and increase the time a bit.

Open the Start Menu, in the search line, type regedit and press Enter.
In regedit, go to:
Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

In the right pane, right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click on Modify.
Type in 1000 (or b/w 1-20 seconds, default time is 12000) and click on OK.
Close regedit.
 
passey89 said:
Disable UAC:
Stops the annoying popups that ask "Are you sure you want to do something?"

Open the Start Menu, in the search line, type UAC and press Enter.
Move slider to "Never notify."
Click the "OK" button.
Click "Yes."
Restart.

Speed up Shut down time:
If you have problems with programs from your computer shutting down too quickly, then repeat the steps and increase the time a bit.

Open the Start Menu, in the search line, type regedit and press Enter.
In regedit, go to:
Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

In the right pane, right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click on Modify.
Type in 1000 (or b/w 1-20 seconds, default time is 12000) and click on OK.
Close regedit.
Click to expand...

Thanks (Y)

Does that last one make programs close quicker or the PC itself shut down quicker?

Is there any disadvantage to disabling UAC? Is it not good in case someone hacks your PC or anything? I may be wrong, just think I read something somewhere like that. Bear in mind that I don't have a password on my admin account anyway
 
Run Windows Experience Index (WEI) right after chipset/VGA driver installation
- This is done to disable de-fragmentation and "sync" windows accelerators and a few other things.

saves you doing it all manually!!!
 
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