[Tut & Guide] How To Increase Your Vista Hard Drive Speed

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How To Increase Your Vista Hard Drive Speed
Here's a couple of simple tweaks that will significantly increase the speed of your Vista hard drive.

Enable Advanced Performance

Click Start then Control Panel
Open Device Manager
Expand the Disk drives branch
Double-click on your disk drive to open Device properties
Click on the Policies tab
Check Enable advanced performance
Click Ok

Turn Off Low Disk Space Warning

Open Registry Editor- Start Menu > Run > type regedit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Right click on the right pane and select New Dword (32 bit) Value
Enter NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and hit Enter
Right click on the new Dword and click Modify
Change the data to 1
Click Ok

CyberAff Reviewed by CyberAff on 5th Oct 2010. [Tut & Guide] How To Increase Your Vista Hard Drive Speed How To Increase Your Vista Hard Drive Speed Here's a couple of simple tweaks that will significantly increase the speed of your Vista hard drive. Enable Advanced Performance Turn Off Low Disk Space Warning Rating: 5

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Nice tip but if you do not have a power supply backup than you will lose data if you have a power outage.

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who says?

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Microsoft....

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can you post it here please

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259716

NOTE: Enabling write caching generates the following warning. This is normal: By enabling write caching, file system corruption and/or data loss could occur if the machine experiences a power, device or system failure and cannot be shutdown properly.