Speed Up Windows Vista Hard Drives
Speed Up Vista Hard Drive
Here are a couple of tweaks you can perform that should increase the speed of your hard drive, just take note of some of the warnings before you perform these tweaks.
Low Disk Space Warning
- You need to disable your Low Disk Space Warning
- Open regedit
- Navigate to this location
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
- Select a new DWORD and call it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
- Set the value to 1
- Done
Enable Advanced Performance
- Open your control panel
- Click system and maintenance
- Click device manager
- Expand disk drives
- Double click on your drive
- Select the policies tab
- Check enable advanced performance
- Click OK, done
Speed Up Your USB Hard Drive
If you have ever tried to download large amounts of data on a USB stick you will have noticed just how long it takes, well this is a tweak that will improve the speeds that you can download things onto your USB drive.
Warning: If you take your USB stick out of your PC a lot you may lose data if you perform this tweak.
- Click start
- Right click on computer and select manage
- Select device manager
- Expand disk drives and select your USB drive
- Right click and select properties
- Select the policies tab
- Select optimize for performance
- Select OK
- Done
