gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » timestamp http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Remove Ntfs Timestamps to speed up Vistahttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/06/remove-ntfs-timestamps-to-speed-up-vista/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/06/remove-ntfs-timestamps-to-speed-up-vista/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:36:06 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/06/remove-ntfs-timestamps-to-speed-up-vista/ If you are using the nfts filesystem in windows xp you might know this registry hack to speed things up a little bit. The default mode is that every time you alter a file a timestamp will be saved which is for most users completely useless. Some backup programs or synchronizers use this feature but most others don’t.

If you are not using a program that needs the timestamp you can easily edit the registry key in vista to speed up your system. Hit Windows + R, type regedit and press enter.  Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Right-click the key NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate and change the value of it to 1. While you are there you could also disable the creation of files in Dos format (8+3) by altering the value of the key NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1 as well.

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