Apr 18, 2012

Windows 7 SSD Tips

The list may be updated.


  • You probably already know this:
    Install large programs on the HDD instead of the SSD drive.
  • Disabling hibernation saves you X GBs on the SSD drive, where X is the size of your RAM.
    Run cmd as administrator.
    Type in:  powercfg -h off
  • Move Documents, Movies, Pictures, Music folder on the HDD drive.
    Moving these directories is easy. Just right-click on them, click Properties, click Location and click Move.
  • Move AppData folder - this is the folder where your installed programs store temporary and/or your local data which is used by those programs. It can grow really large in size.
    There is no simple procedure to do this, so this option is not really preferred.
  • Move the whole Users folder.
    LifeHacker has an article about it. Again, not a really simple solution.

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