Open regedit
	goto HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Control\FileSystem
	create a REG_DWORD named NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
	set it to a decimal value of 1
	reboot

Turn Off Windows Indexing

While it’s great for finding files faster when you are doing a search, Windows file indexing is always working in the background indexing files and thus contributing to hard disk overhead.

To turn it off go to Control Panel => Add/Remove Programs => Windows Components. Then deselect Indexing Service.

Increase Your File System Cache

On a typical high end system such as a 2.4 MHz Pentium a hard disk will transfer data at around 30-40 MegaBytes per Second. That’s pretty fast! How would you like hard disk transfer bursts of around 1 GigaByte per second? You can achieve this easily using any version of Windows as it’s already part of the file system… that is file caching where data that has been read from the hard disk remains in memory so that if it is required again before it is flushed from the cache it reads directly from the cache for these super fast data access rates. That’s right it is already part of the file system but the recommended default setting (the setting you might already be using) is not necessarily the best. The default setting in Windows is to allocate more memory to programs and less to the file cache but this is wasting precious memory that could be used for file caching instead of not being used at all. If, for example, you are running a 512 Mb RAM, and you have a program or two loaded, you have around 300 MB that isn’t being used AT ALL. It’s being reserved partly for file caching and partly for any programs you might load with the priority being for any programs you might load. It will not allocate all of that memory to the file cache and it is VERY RARE that you would use all of that memory for programs.

So you could either waste that memory and have degraded system performance or you could use that memory for file caching. USE IT FOR FILE CACHING! After you make the change below, you will notice after you reboot and start using your system greatly reduced hard disk access for both read and write operations which is where the biggest bottleneck in computing is.

Performance benefits of this tweak are see no matter how little RAM you have but are more pronounced with the more RAM you have. We suggest no less than 256 Mb and more is better.

Perform the following:

CONTROL PANEL => SYSTEM => ADVANCED => PERFORMANCE => SETTINGS => ADVANCED => MEMORY USAGE. Change the option from Programs to System Cache.

Reboot your computer.