Windows 7 Performance Tweaks

Here are the current tweaks I’m running on my Lenovo W520 with an OCZ SSD.

UAC is set to off.

Set power plan to maximum performance.

Set folder options so that Windows opens folder in a new process.

Windows Features Turned Off

• Remote Differential Compression
• Tablet PC components
• Games

Services Disabled

• Computer Browser (Other computers on my network fulfill this role)
• Superfetch
• Disk Defragmenter (Only on computers without traditional drives)
• Tablet PC Input Service

Registry Changes

Disable Low Disk Space Notification Alert

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and set NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to 1. If it doesn’t exist create a new DWORD 32 bit key.