A few, tweaks that do bring some relief to your busy harddisk
Input this into an admin command prompt and then reboot your computer:
- fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1
- fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
- fsutil behavior set mftzone 4 (optional value is 1-100 which will be multiplied by 200MB).
- fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2
- fsutil behavior set quotanotify 4294967295
Description:
- fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1
Disables the creation of old style filenames used by really old windows versions. - fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
Stops windows from updating the file time field of a file, each time you access or open or read or write it. - fsutil behavior set mftzone 4
Makes the MFT a bit bigger… MFT is the zone which contains information that is used to manage the filesystem (optional value is 1-100 which will be multiplied by 200MB). - fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2
Let Windows use larger filecaches to speed up disk access. - fsutil behavior set quotanotify 4294967295
Disable quota checking (who uses quotas on his own machine?).
For more information, visit the fsutil behavior technet page:
FSUTIL behavior – on Technet
For more information, visit the fsutil technet page:
FSUTIL – on Technet