For a little while, Windows enthusiasts had found a clever way to unlock a hidden storage upgrade inside Windows 11. The tweak tapped into Microsoft's newer native NVMe storage path, a feature that first appeared in Windows Server 2025 and promised noticeably better SSD performance, especially in heavier random I/O workloads. But that shortcut now appears to be gone in recent Windows 11 Insider builds, with reports saying the old registry-based method no longer works.

