Background
The latest tweak making the rounds is one that allegedly increases the performance of NVMe drives in Windows 11. For now, this is done via registry modification.
This all starts with the following article from Microsoft:
Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance
The first thing you’ll notice is they are announcing “native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025”. If you’re like me you’re like, “Wait…what? NVMe drives have been around for a dozen years. Microsoft is just getting around to native support?” Yep, that is exactly the case (Linux Geeks are laughing right now.)
Win11’s latest update includes a new NVMe driver: “With Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025, the storage stack is purpose-built for modern hardware—eliminating translation layers and legacy constraints.” So, until now Windows NVMe support was basically a hack.
Discovery
I don’t know which site first posted about using this tweak Win11. I’ve posted a few sources below. Some enterprising Geeks somewhere read the Microsoft article and said to themselves, “Server 2025 and Win11 share a kernel, hmmmmm, I wonder…” Sure enough you can activate this setting under Win11.
The Registry Hack
See Heise.de for full instructions:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides]
"735209102"=dword:00000001
"1853569164"=dword:00000001
"156965516"=dword:00000001
Just Because You Can Do A Thing Doesn’t Mean You Should
Yes you can activate this tweak. No, it isn’t supported.
Users report everything from decent performance increases to nothing at all. A myriad of problems are reported too:
– It looked like it was working initially, but all my VM’s broke down shortly after. All of them are/were corrupt. (link)
– Samsung Magician will no longer find my SSD (Samsung 990 Pro). (link)
– And with me in the Western Digital Dashboard, they are now duplicate (link)
– SSD in the device manager is completely missing, but now simply no longer appears under “drives” but under “storage media”. WD Dashboard finds it twice now. (link)
– This means the hard drive’s ID has changed. Under normal operation, this has no effect;, however, are registered that are to a specific hard drive ID will no longer run.
It’s also possible that continuous partition backups will no longer work because the partition is not the same. (link)
Bad Tweak (for now)
I have NVMe drives on two PCs and one laptop. I’m not going to try this on any of them. The risks outweigh the potential benefits.
Credit:
Heise.de
Notebookcheck.net
Deskmodder.de
Pcgamer.com
Tomshardware.com (bonus points for clickbaitiest headline of the year)
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