So I just installed Windows 8 onto my Samsung 830 64GB SSD and I must say I'm enjoying this speed boost.

Unfortunately my mobo is a Sata2 and doesn't support AHCI mode, still it runs very fast. Boots in 6.5 seconds, sweet.

Can anyone recommend any apps/tweaks I should be doing with my fresh Win 8 and SSD intall?

I'm using my old mechanical drive as storage.

edit: Also i'm impressed with the file copying of Windows 8, MUCH faster and I like the information it gives. Long overdue.

how old is your mobo that it doesnt support AHCI?
go and check for bios updates, that doesnt sound right at all.

my asus mobo is nearly 5 years old and it has AHCI.

That is probably the best 'here's windows 8' videos I've seen before Euphoria, cheers for the post.

I've been running W8 at home atm for about a month now.
Aside from the obvious tablet integration (which I'm still yet to be convinced that for a 'traditional mouse and keyboard desktop' is, at all, a good idea) which just 'feels' awkward, I'm enjoying the speed of the OS (I didn't think it would improve on Win 7's speed... Windows 8 is a LOT faster in certain areas) and above all else, the file transfer dialogue box is AWESOME now too as Toll pointed out, WELL overdue MS.

It isn't very well implemented at all for multiple monitor support best I can figure. The 'artist formerly known as metro' is kinda neat in that it will only interact with the monitor that your mouse is on at the time, but really tediously, you can't have any of those 'full screen metro' apps span multiple screens, or duplicate them to run them on multiple screens (this is particularly shiteful with I dunno, say internet explorer)
Most apps don't support the 'display modes' (ie, don't conform to that 'full screen metro' type interface) so it's still 'plain ol' windows' when using those)
My only other bug bear is that the ONLY way to reach the 'shut down' button is to 'lock' the screen (quickest to just hit 'WIN+L') and then click the power button, and select shut down. Surely there's a better way that I've missed...

Windows 8 doesn't deserve the bad press it's getting.
Sure Microsoft have packaged it poorly again ($58 for the OS is good, but add another $58 for 'Pro' (which includes Media Centre, remote desktop* and bitlocker)... REMOTE DESKTOP SHOULDN'T BE A 'PREMIUM' FEATURE!... why the fuck bother to do it like that.... still it's not the traffic accident that is 'home', 'home premium', 'professional', 'Ultimate' etc etc etc) and the current 'more fully featured Windows 8 ready' laptop/tablets available to play with at the moment all feel REALLY half baked. (Dell's 12" XPS is as close to 'reasonable' implementation I've seen, but as a mate of mine put it yesterday, "at the size/weight it is, it has all of the hangups of being a laptop and none (save for the touch screen perhaps) of the benefits of being a tablet. It combines the worst of both worlds"

I can't see touch screen desktops coming in to being the norm any time soon, and some of the 'gesture' based stuff in Windows 8 is poorly implemented, or has really shittily advertised alternatives for 'conventional desktop users'.

how do you actualy check if youre running in AHCI mode or not ... my bios says ahci is enabled but I cant tell anywhere, registry seems to not show it clearly either

Are you sure you mean AHCI and not UEFI instead? What motherboard do you have?

That's because metro apps are supposed to act like android/apple apps and not close.

Not really, hibernates them like a smart phone does. I don't really use many of them so can't really bench it.

Also, Windows 8 for PCs is Microsoft's very poor attempt to push an excellent touchscreen UI onto keyboard and mouse desktops with the express purpose of increasing the market for Metro app developers and in turn making their Windows RT platform more attractive in the mobile space.

Windows 8 (more specifically the Metro part) isn't bad, it just wasn't made for and doesn't belong on PCs, especially not PCs with large widescreen monitors.

What I'd like to see them do for a PC version is have the option to bring back the Start Menu and the Aero theme, and make it so Metro apps can run and behave like normal desktop Windows programs if you want them to.
The Metro app can still operate in exactly the same way, just put a window border around it, let me move/resize/snap it and just generally not have it fullscreen, and let me minimise/maximise/close it with the click of a button in the top corner.. there's no reason why they couldn't.

I'm not saying get rid of Metro as it stands, I'm just saying have the option to use all of Windows as it was designed for keyboard and mouse, not half designed for keyboard and mouse, half designed fingers and touchscreen. For instance I'd still like to use fullscreen Metro on my HTPC (with this!).

Hopefully the influence of corporate customers will push them in that direction in the next version or two.

Boot time for windows 8 is fucking awesome, slowest part of boot is the bios loading the ram/drives/usb

Boot time for windows 8 is fucking awesome, slowest part of boot is the bios loading the ram/drives/usb

Just upgrade your motherboard(!):
http://event.asus.com/mb/windows_8/