Introduction
I'm sure many of you are painfully aware that normal saves in Skyrim are generally quick, whereas Autosaves and Quicksaves can be painfully slow. Well this utility resolves that and ensures that Autosaves and Quicksaves take the same amount of time as normal saves.

The problem with Autosaves and Quicksaves is that the filenames they use already exist in the saves directory. If you watch the save directory while saves are occurring you will see that creating the .skse file is what takes the time. A couple of years ago I found a blog that explained exactly what was going on and that allowed me to create this utility. Sadly I can no longer find that blog entry so cannot give the author their due credit.

So what does this utility do. Basically its a console app that you run before you start Skyrim and it just sits there and monitors the saves directory. When it sees that a save is complete it renames the save files so that they start with an underscore. This means that when Skyrim next uses that filename there isn't already a file with that filename.

Basic Instructions
Install the mod anywhere on to your computer
Run RenameSkyrimSaves.exe
Run Skyrim

To RenameSkyrimSaves.exe either close the console window or select the window and press Enter.

The console app logs everything its doing

If you have set a Custom Save Directory
If you are using the default saves directory then RenameSkyrimSaves will work straight out of the box. If through you have set a custom save location then you will need to alter RenameSkyrimSaves.exe.config as follows:

First open RenameSkyrimSaves.exe.config in notepad or the editor of your choice.

Line 4-8 of the file will be:
<!--
By default we look for saves in My Documents\My Games\Skyrim and My Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition.
If you have changed the saves directory then uncomment the next line and set the path to the directory containing the saves.
<add key="SavesDirectory" value="path to the saves directory"/>
-->

Move the --> on line 8 so that it is before <add key="SavesDirectory"
value="path to the saves directory"/> , i.e. the file looks like
this:
<!--
By default we look for saves in My Documents\My Games\Skyrim and My Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition.
If you have changed the saves directory then uncomment the next line and set the path to the directory containing the saves.
-->
<add key="SavesDirectory" value="path to the saves directory"/>

Now update "path to the saves directory" to be the directory where your saves are placed.

Finally save the changes to the file and run RenameSkyrimSaves.exe