Speed Up Windows (VMs & Physical)

I’ve found a multitude of blogs that point out that significant performance enhancements can be attained by disabling the File Last Access Time Check registry key in Windows Server 200x& XP.

I tried it and it does indeed make a difference, but don’t just take my word for it as Microsoft have disabled it by default in Vista & 2008.

Check out these blogs for various discussions about it:

Give it a go, unless of course you run an application that depends on this parameter being updated.


This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pm and is filled under: Microsoft Tags:

2 Responses to “Speed Up Windows (VMs & Physical)”

  1. Carlo Costanzo Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Thanks for the Link!

  2. Basic things to do when creating a Microsoft Server Gold Build for use on a VMware ESX Template. | Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

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