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Sorry, that is not my field of expertise. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable chimes in to help you. Curious as to why even use symbolic links though ? I mean the target of the symbolic link (in this case the game) is taking up space no matter where it resides, so what is a symbolic link saving you ? Other than having it take up space elsewhere. But you can just launch the game (and all its mods) from the "elsewhere" place it's residing. So.... yea. But I admit, I most likely could be missing something here. As I've never used symbolic links.

Haha ! Exactly. Seriously, its a OS 2nd now.

Hey everyone, I wanted to report back once I had the proper time of doing things right and testing, etc. I also was able to join the person's tutorials I been following's Discord. This helped a lot to truly do things as recommended. That said I am not done of course (modding is a growing, living breathing thing) but I have about 90 plug ins running now. ALL for now are dedicated to bug fixes, patches to fix this, that, menu improvements, patches for those, bug fixes to fix bug fixes type stuff, and Audio improvements. And all the essential tool mods (SKSE, BAE, SAC, SSEEdit, Ffdec, BethINI, SDK CK, etc..) SkyrimSE is running super smooth and in a way that just feels much better than ever before. I am not into my graphical or gameplay improvements yet, so I will not speak on that for now). The point of this report is to say everything is indeed running flawless and snappy. So I can indeed stand behind the instal techniques explained: Steam App = C drive (SSD) root directory NOT inside any default program folders. Steam games = D drive (SSD) root directory in a folder named Steam Library All modding stuff (your organizer, tools, etc.. = D drive (SSD) root directory in a folder named "Modding Utilities" Saves still go to default location which is on C drive I have a backup folder for all save BACKUPS and various SSEEdit backup generated files on my D drive root folder named BackUps as well. This is convenient and a good idea. I can vouch for this method working extremely well. With so far 0 issues. I will disclaim though, I un-installed everything first and clean re-installed it. This I feel is always a key to having things work well. I didn't just drag my folders out of the C drive to the D drive, as that's not as clean and can lead to the issues some people claim they have. Thanks for all involved with help here.

Thanks xrayy for that valuable info. You know you have a great point, and I think its wisest I just let "good enough be". So I'm a leave it as is. I did do a lot that I could. And it is running fine. The invasive qualities of Windows 10 do make me angry though ! lol Thanks again everyone !

I got this covered now guys - Thanks for all the help and responses ! LOL :laugh: :tongue:

Hi Miranda ! Glad to have you aboard. I also am new here. I am fine, how about yourself ? So what's your games of choice ? What mod organizer do you use ?

Awesome HeyYou. Thanks ! Much appreciated. Carefully looking over that. Man, I have to admit I don't even know where I would start. Like, how does this instal ? Its possible this is too advanced for me. I spent literally 15 minutes on that page and I still don't even know how to download it ! lol The whole page looks like code. No instructions on instal ? Curious if this is just out of my ballpark. I'm a simple man.

So I looked into this and became 100% completely lost. lol Like is there a walkthrough on how to install this and where is the most trust one ? Ideally looking for one with a simple instal button.. geeez ! lol This is totally confusing to me Any elaborated detailed help here is much appreciated

This is exactly how I do it on Mac since 1998 and want to do on my new PC here. Ahh, ok. Ok, so what is the walk through to accomplish this properly ? (if you don't mind)

Absolutely awesome info. Thanks ! I will try this.

Cool, thanks for the info BT. So I guess I have no real issues then and am doing best I can, because that was the thing that happened. Even though I got all updates turned off on a GPE level, it auto updated a system security thing. And I had a worry that it meant it wasn't working and the next OS update that comes along with a slew of incompatible drivers lol would wreak havoc on my Nvidia card, etc.. like the stories I've heard of recently. Windows is so invasive its not even funny. But it sounds lie from what you guys are saying is, even if you go to a root level to turn them things off, system security/stability updates will happen regardless ? If so, then hopefully I am fine. And good to know you've had no issues. Ok them telementry (such a funny word isn't it?) things I believe that was the first thing I did on my own. As they were not too hard to come across. And I am a severe and diehard privacy advocate so them type of things are the first things I disable. I didn't need a tutorial for those. BUT if you guys are saying there is some advanced deeper settings of those to get into (this Reclaim Windows 10 thing), then please share ! Walk me through it. But the "metered connection" things I found were completely the opposite, as they were to limit my data usage ! But HeyYou was making it seem like there is a metered place that limits windows updates ? Please clarify guys.

Thanks for responding with some info HeyYou ! So with all due humble respect, why would I not want to completely turn off updates ? To my knowledge updates cause problems if you update 1 thing, but not another that then may need to be once you did the other update, lol The ol catch 22 all the time.. Especially with PC's. I'm new to PC's but been around the tech world long enough to know and see this as gospel. I'd like to hear where youre coming from on this. Much appreciated ! That said - how do you set the metering ? I believe I tried that from a tutorial, as by default its set to 80% windows updates, 20% user. Which is ridiculous and the guy said to make it 100% user 0 windows. But when I went in to try that, my choices looked different than his, and which (left side/right side) means what ? Every way I tried made my internet slower, so I put it back to default. But I would like to get to the bottom of that setting. What is "telemetry" ? And yes I will do that, can you please walk me through the procedures ?

Thanks for chiming in with input to help BeyondTom ! So I might have come off like I am doing this for resources, etc.. But I agree with you. As my computer specs are also ridiculous dope ! And its not really about that for me. Though I will tell you, when I disabled wifi and removed all networks except "Network 1" - my internet speed jumped up from 600mb/s to 940 mb/s. (I pay for 1gb/s) - So seriously, windows is a mess. Believe it. Its things like that, tips like that that Im looking for as a side note. (less important) Most important is -its more of a issue with auto updates. Them things are invasive and more times than not completely ruin a system once it set up for something, cause the something might not be compatible with a piece of the update. One rule of thumb I know is, if you got a computer running perfect, and don't add or update any of your regularly used apps/games/etc.., then NEVER let it update, as what you got is all perfectly compatible. So until I update something else, I do not want my Windows system updating any of itself. (figured this was common knowledge by now). The driver epidemic thanks to windows updates is famous. Look it up. Updates can ruin everything, just like not updating *when needed* can ruin things. So you want to control it manually when it does update, cause only you know when is best. Anyway, just curious if anyone got them advanced tips on how I can get in deep and stop this thing from updating. So any advice for those that are savvy at that, please let me know the secret.

Thats for sure. I always use high end voltage regulators and power conditioners (from my music knowledge) for all my electronics now (TV set up, home stereo, and now PC game room). I use Furman, they are the best bang for buck, but there are higher ends out there. Bottom line is, my gear is all guaranteed to receive dead spot on 120v period. No matter what my spikes and drops are.. within reason of course. And power conditioning, though less important for gaming is seriously important for tube music gear. Dirty power = no good. That said, monitors benefit from power conditioning. To get a consistent color representation, etc.. But that is also splitting hairs. But I'm a rabbit hole hair splitter I tell ya !

Hi. I am 100% totally new to PC's. For 1-2 months now I've had mine (purchased for and used for 100% gaming only) all is well, running fine. Being who I am during this time, I also wanted to make sure to turn everything I don't use or need of, disable all stuff un-needed, de-bloat, etc.. And biggest thing - **Make sure all auto updates are turned off permanently, not just temporarily**. So I am pretty sure I did most things. Watching tutorials, etc.. I even disabled my WiFi on it cause I will never use it and I felt it was getting in the way sometimes of a super quick ethernet connection. (just to let you know how I am). lol But I need any advanced advice and help, tips and pointers on any and all advanced level settings, tweaks and optimization I can do to have my system 100% focused on gaming alone. Everything else disabled, off, etc.. The main thing concern I have now is my auto Updating still seems to be doing some things even though I totally disabled it the advanced way via GPE on some tutorial I seen. I feel this thread could also help others, so thanks for helping if you can !