[TIPS] Increase Your Harddrive Speed In Windows Vista

Windows Vista’s hard drive default settings don’t enable advanced performance. You can enable it to improve your hard drive performance, but I suggest you only do this for laptops with a good battery condition or a PC with a backup power supply, since enabling this option increases the risk of data loss if the hard drive loses power.

To enable hard drive advanced performance in Windows Vista:

1. Click Start then Control Panel
2. Open Device Manager
3. Expand the Disk drives branch
4. Double-click on your disk drive to open Device properties
5. Click on the Policies tab
6. Check Enable advanced performance
7. Click Ok

Another thing that can improve your hard drive performance is disabling the low disk space warning. This will disable checking your hard drive every time you read and write data. I find this feature useless, since I can see how much space is available on my hard drive.

To disable it:

1. Open Registry Editor — Start Menu > Run > type regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer
3. Right-click on the right pane and select New Dword (32 bit) Value
4. Enter NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and hit Enter
5. Right-click on the new Dword and click Modify
6. Change the data to 1
7. Click Ok

If you have more tips, feel free to write them in the comments below.