Windows NT/2000 Performance Settings!

File System Cache

This setting allows you to increase the file system cache that Windows NT or 2000 will use to cache file system activity. The settings are Low, Med, High, or Off. It is best to start with the Low setting then gradually work up to the Med setting. The higher you set this, the more memory windows will consume for the cache. File access times and application launch times will greatly increase using this feature.

Disable 8.3 Name Creation (NTFS)

This key stops the NTFS volume from generating MS-DOS compatible 8.3 file names. Disabling this feature can increase the performance on heavily used NTFS partitions that have a large amount of files with long filenames.

Warning: Some 16 bit installation programs may have problems with this option enabled, you can either re-enabled 8.3 creation during the install or use directory names in the non LFN format i.e. "c:\progra~1\applic~1"

Disable Last Access Time Stamp (NTFS)

When Windows NT lists a directory (Explorer, DIR command, etc.) on an NTFS volume, it updates the Last Access time stamp on each directory it detects. If there are a very large number of directories, this can affect performance. Disabling this will speed disk access.

Disable Large System Cache

This setting also deals with file cache in Windows NT and 2000. For systems with very little memory, you will want to disable this in order to increase the amount of available memory for applications, otherwise you would not want to disable the large system cache setting.

Disable Paging Executive

On systems with a large amount of memory, this setting can be enabled to force the core Windows NT system to be kept in memory and not paged to disk. For systems with low memory installed or for heavily used systems, it is best to disable this setting.

Clear Page File At Shutdown

Windows normally does not not clear or recreate the page file. On a heavy used system this can be both a security threat and performance drop. Enabling this setting will cause Windows to clear the page file whenever the system is shutdown.