We’ll show you how to properly set up Windows 7 and your SSD. With a few minutes of Windows tuning and the right settings, your SSD may give you a few more years of life and the system gets even faster. So it is worthwhile to hand. W
The correct BIOS setting
To properly recognize the SSD, the BIOS setting is critical before a new installation: The AHCI mode must have been activated in the BIOS.
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If the operating system has already been installed, the BIOS entry may be made only after a corresponding change in the registry file, otherwise Windows 7 no longer starts.
Tip 1: Check running services
Because of the finite write cycles that an SSD can handle, the lifetime of an SSD is limited. In short: the more often an SSD is written, the shorter is the remaining lifetime. However, writing to the system hard disk is one of the favorite applications of Windows and its services.
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Via> Start> Search field input: msconfig> Services tab, you get a good overview of the running or non-running Windows services. However, an exact behavior of the service that goes beyond on-out can not be controlled with msconfig. More comprehensive, you can set the Windows services via> Start> Search field: services.
Who runs its operating system on an SSD, must consider which service it should generally and which it should only switch off individually. But it is also important to know whether you have an SSD in your system, as you would expect from many notebooks. Or if you run the SSD as a system hard drive in combination with HDDs in a PC.
More tips for optimally setting Windows 7 for an SSD have been put together in our gallery
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