'Laptops w. Intel Series 5 chipset can not take full advantage of fast SSDs'

[JJB]

PRLIMINARY WINDOWS 7 SSD R/W SPEED TWEAKS: STEP 1

The first step in this process is to 'activate' all the processor power options so they show up in your 'Advanced Power Settings'. This is done in the registry editor. While these changes do not change any settings at this point there is very little risk, but IT IS STRONGLY ADVISED TO MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE YOU PROCEED.

1) Type " regedit " (without quotes) in the start menu 'search bar' and hit return.

2) Open my screen shot below and follow the 'path' highlighted at the bottom of the regedit screenshot (easiest if you can split screens side by side)

3) Starting with the second highlighted line in the screenshots left column (begins with 06cad...) click on it once in your regedit screen (so it highlights blue) and the double click on 'attributes' that appears on the right hand column and change the value to '0' and click OK. Do this for all items shown in the 'red box' in my image. NOTE: Some items will already have a value of '0', leave them alone by clicking 'cancel' and move to the the next item.

4) Once you have completed this for all items, open any 'Advanced Power Plan Setting' and click on 'Proceesor Power Management'. Verify that you now have 35(or so) total options available.

5) You can now close regedit and go on to step 2

NOTE: At this point you have not actually made any setting changes, all this did was make the hidden 'Processor Power Management' setting options show up in the Advanced Power Plan Settings window.

Regedit attribute '0' lines.

[JJB]

here they are
that' what we can call team work lol
it doesn't take too much time to print screen all the power windows

Awsome! Thanks for that. I'll trust you about the 'paint' options but I have never used it, only higher end programs, LOL, that are more of a pain

My request was becuase I did not copy the original settings I started with, assuming incorrectly that I could just look at another 'power plan' for the default value... Well I found out some settings are different based on which power plan it is

Thanks again. Oh and read my next post, I need input now that you replied with the screen shots so promptly...

[KolosoK]

JJB, if some settings haven't been tweaked from default values, would it be possible to simply not enable them in the registry?

[JJB]

So now I need some input / advice from all of you.

At this point I have a couple of options of posting the next step for actually making the setting changes:

I can either go back and 'remove' all the processor options that I left at default settings to simplify the process, this would significantly reduce the number of choices listed in the power plan settings.....OR.... I could leave them all in and just show screen shots of what setting values I changed. The latter option, I guess, would allow for those of you who like to tweak things to see if you can improve these settings but it may be overwhelming to the average user. I am also thinking of the other forums threads i will be posting this on which will mainly be 'owners lounges'....

Any thoughts???

[KolosoK]

I think it would be nice to say which ones were not changed and how to leave them out of the registry change (since the registry isn't listing them in clear English). It would be cool if someone made an English explanation of each of the Registry keys.

I.e.:
06cadf0e-blablabla = Idle Power Option
etc.

[MagusDraco]

well this is impressive.

(and helpful whenever I get a ssd in a year or so)

[JJB]

JJB, if some settings haven't been tweaked from default values, would it be possible to simply not enable them in the registry?

LOL you kind of beat me to my last post.

I would NOT delete any of these from the registry, even if they are left at default settings they are doing some sort of control function to your CPU. Bad idea!

But if you read above (and maybe what you meant) you could just not change the 'atribute' to '0' on the settings that don't get changed. This would keep those setting option hidden from the power plan settings. Again it would be much cleaner but a real pain in the a** to figure out which is which due to the regedit numbers and 'friendly names' not matching the actual power plan names for each adjustment...

[KolosoK]

LOL you kind of beat me to my last post.

I would NOT delete any of these from the registry, even if they are left at default settings they are doing some sort of control function to your CPU. Bad idea!

But if you read above (and maybe what you meant) you could just not change the 'atribute' to '0' on the settings that don't get changed. This would keep those setting option hidden from the power plan settings. Again it would be much cleaner but a real pain in the a** to figure out which is which due to the regedit numbers and 'friendly names' not matching the actual power plan names for each adjustment...

Yea, I didn't mean deleting them I meant leaving the attribute at 1. I realize that this is a daunting task. I'm sure none of us will mind if you just give the whole picture.

[JJB]

well this is impressive.

(and helpful whenever I get a ssd in a year or so)

Yep. I wil post the final setting instructions on the E 14 thread once some others here verify my results and hopefully improve the tweaks....

[erig007]

So now I need some input / advice from all of you.

At this point I have a couple of options of posting the next step for actually making the setting changes:

I can either go back and 'remove' all the processor options that I left at default settings to simplify the process, this would significantly reduce the number of choices listed in the power plan settings.....OR.... I could leave them all in and just show screen shots of what setting values I changed. The latter option, I guess, would allow for those of you who like to tweak things to see if you can improve these settings but it may be overwhelming to the average user. I am also thinking of the other forums threads i will be posting this on which will mainly be 'owners lounges'....

Any thoughts???

the latter option and highlight attributes with colour and write some comments for some maybe