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Yikes, how is this windows 10 ssd bug still around?

JeffMD

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Windows 10, unlike 7 and 8, fails to turn off superfetch and it completely breaks on some manufacturer hard drives. My media player PC using a PNY SSD has this and it causes %100 drive load over short periods of time. I found out how to disable all the parts of it and fix it but a wifi issue lead me to swap into windows 8 for a little while. This week I was going to do a reinstall and decided to have it go back to windows 10 again and again I ran into the problem, almost forgetting what the cause was. This was after all the updates had gone through.

How is it that such a performance debilitating issue (it makes movies stutter and breaks games) is not a priority fix? I can only guess it has to do with how many people are still running mechanical drives.
 
Superfetch is running on my Windows 10 PC, but I have a mix of SSDs and regular HDDs in my computer. I have not noticed an issue with it.
 
There's no need to disable Superfetch on Windows 8 or Windows 10. The service itself detects SSD's and turns off the parts that are not needed, but it does not disable the entire service.

Same with Defrag, it will still schedule "Optimization" on SSD's, but this only includes Trim, not a full defrag.

When Windows 10 and 8 were developed, the developers and engineers at Microsoft were aware of the existence of SSD's, and optimized the OS accordingly. They are not stupid.
 
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No bug. It works fine. The days of completely disabling Windows services because they might be using resources are over.
 
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