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My laptop got dropped over the holidays, injuring the hard drive; lots of "not responding", very slow, Windows Explorer not working. Since I had lots of valuable data not backed up, I took it to the pros while limping along on my old XP desktop. They managed to recover everything from my flaky 1TB HD, which was about 2/3 full, and put it on a new SSD. The difference is amazing. It now boots in a couple of minutes instead of half an hour before everything works.
Just so you know, I'm running Windows 7.
So I've been researching advice on SSDs. I already knew you shouldn't defrag them, but I haven't done that in decades. Also, that they actually delete files, not just hide them on the disk until the space is needed. But when I got my computer back, the Recycle Bin was empty, but it still works, so it's Windows hiding files I delete, not the SSD, until I delete them permanently from the Recycle Bin. One tip I saw was to go to C:/ Drive Properties and uncheck Indexing. When I do that, it asks if want to do it for C:/ only, or also subfolders and files. Should I? What about the Disk Cleanup button to remove temporary files. Can/should I use it? I see they say "Don’t Disable TRIM". I don't even know what that is or where to find it. Any hints would be appreciated.
Just so you know, I'm running Windows 7.
So I've been researching advice on SSDs. I already knew you shouldn't defrag them, but I haven't done that in decades. Also, that they actually delete files, not just hide them on the disk until the space is needed. But when I got my computer back, the Recycle Bin was empty, but it still works, so it's Windows hiding files I delete, not the SSD, until I delete them permanently from the Recycle Bin. One tip I saw was to go to C:/ Drive Properties and uncheck Indexing. When I do that, it asks if want to do it for C:/ only, or also subfolders and files. Should I? What about the Disk Cleanup button to remove temporary files. Can/should I use it? I see they say "Don’t Disable TRIM". I don't even know what that is or where to find it. Any hints would be appreciated.