Its safe. Will it help your system? It depends[1]. This isn't a new find - its been available since at least Windows 2000, up through I believe all the current versions of Windows..
1. Dont ask me on what. I've never been able to make that determination. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Graeme Carstairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of our "Expert Users" > has discovered and article a magazine article regarding speeding up Windows, > and it suggested the following > The NTFS File system stores every file access in the form of a last-accesses > time stamp. If there are a lot of accesses, a waiting list is constructed in > RAM and this can really sap performance to speed up your NTFS partitions do > the following > 1. go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem > 2. find or create a DWORD "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate" and set its value to > 1. > He claims his PC is now noticeably faster. > My question is it safe to do this, and if it makes such a difference is it > worth doing on all PC's and possible servers?? > TIA > Graeme > > -- > Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world > and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the > world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. > > > > -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
