Speed Up your NTFS partition

Windows NT was giving us a new partition that's more powerful than previous partition (FAT32). It was come with many features, such as smaller cluster unit, bigger capacity, safer than its 'ancestors'. So, if you install Windows NT or above make sure that you're configure your harddrive partition become NTFS format. And because it has smaller cluster than FAT series partition, so NTFS will save your harddrive space too.

NTFS partition will update timestamp data for Last Access field, so if you open a folder where contains so many files inside it, it'll takes times. But I get a trick to make it faster, the point is configure NTFS doesn't update the Last Access data so it'll save your time.

We'll play with registry again this time, open your Registry Editor (You can open it via Start - Run then type regedit in textbox) then drive your registry to path : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem then create a new DWORD key and give it name NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate, after NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate has created then changes its value with 1 (original value is 0).

Hmmmm, I still have a trick for NTFS partition, the trick is disable writing files in 8.3 mode (MSDOS format), to configure it we still play with registry. Open Registry Editor again and then pointing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem then create a new DWORD key and gives it name : NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation then changes its value become 1.

Restart your computer and retry to open a folder that contains so many files, and you'll get it be faster.