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I plan on getting an ssd. When I reinstall Win 8 on the ssd will I have to reactivate windows?
yep, unless you do the upgrade i think.
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Hey Sean thanx for the really helpful guide and the rest people here for sharing their experience. I installed Windows 8 under UEFI/GPT mode, applied most of the tweaks and I have to say that my lappy is blazing fast and stable. Just want to add some info on how to install the Intel Rapid Start Technology since it was somehow different due to the GPT partitioning. So after a little bit of search I found a guide on how to create the hibernation partition that is required in order to install the Rapid Start driver. Check this link and apply at will. Hope it helps.
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Sean, I followed your guide for Win 7 with my m4. Should I just run an in place upgrade or will reformatting the drive for use with Win 8 show a better performance difference?.
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Sean, I followed your guide for Win 7 with my m4. Should I just run an in place upgrade or will reformatting the drive for use with Win 8 show a better performance difference?.
No idea honestly, I just do clean installs. i never have done the upgrade install.
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We shouldn't need to disconnect any other drives should we? It's more of a precaution right. Only reason I ask is because I really don't want to have to move my computer out and unhook every single drive I have in there lol.
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"Double-click on "EnableSuperfetch" and enter "0" (default value is "3")"

This value is not present in my registry. Can I just ignore it?
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We shouldn't need to disconnect any other drives should we? It's more of a precaution right. Only reason I ask is because I really don't want to have to move my computer out and unhook every single drive I have in there lol.
oops missed you. it is so that teh system reserve is not written to the secondary disks.
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"Double-click on "EnableSuperfetch" and enter "0" (default value is "3")"

This value is not present in my registry. Can I just ignore it?
Yea you can. I need to go through and revise this as it was written when teh preview betas were out, now that the RTM version is out I can adjust and verify things better.
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Hello Sean, thanks for the great tutorial.
I have few question should i disable optimizing drive windows knows that drive is ssd but it says that is never optimized, and when i check schedule of optimisation drive is included in it. Second question is should i disable computer system maintenance?
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