{"id":781,"date":"2015-08-28T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2022-06-09T13:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T17:21:25","slug":"windows-7-to-windows-10-upgrade-with-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/windows-7-to-windows-10-upgrade-with-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 to Windows 10 Upgrade with SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded my Windows 7 desktop to Windows 10 and was VERY frustrated with how slow programs opened and would fail to respond once they were opened&#8230; turns out somewhere in the upgrade, SuperFetch and Prefetch got re-enabled on my SSD.<\/p>\n<p>SuperFetch and Prefetch are Windows Storage Management technologies that provide fast access to data on traditional hard drives by trying to predict and preload applications&#8230; On Solid State Drives they really are not needed and just end up in excessive writes to the drive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SuperFetch is easily disabled using the Service Manager (services.msc). Simply scroll down to the SuperFetch service and change the start up to <strong>Disabled<\/strong> and click on <strong>Apply<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To disable Prefetch, run the Registery Editor (regedit) and Navigate to:<em> HKLM \\ SYSTEM \\ CurrentControlSet \\ Control \\ Session Manager \\ Memory Management \\ PrefetchParameters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Double-click on <strong>EnablePrefetcher<\/strong> in the right side to open its DWORD value box.<\/p>\n<p>The possible values for EnablePrefetcher are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0 \u2013 Disable Prefetcher<\/li>\n<li>1 \u2013 Application launch Prefetching enabled<\/li>\n<li>2 \u2013 Boot Prefetching enabled<\/li>\n<li>3 \u2013 Application launch and Boot Prefetching enabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The default value is <strong>3<\/strong>. To disable Prefetch, set it to <strong>0<\/strong>. Click <strong>OK<\/strong> and <strong>Exit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Things seem much more efficient now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded my Windows 7 desktop to Windows 10 and was VERY frustrated with how slow programs opened and would fail to respond once they were opened&#8230; turns out somewhere in the upgrade, SuperFetch and Prefetch got re-enabled on my SSD. SuperFetch and Prefetch are Windows Storage Management technologies that provide fast access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[62],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}