Filesystem tuning

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