Archive for the ‘Faster Vista! Series [HD]’ Category
Faster Vista! [HD] Ep. 26: Disable NTFS Last Access Update Timestamp in the Registry
Friday, January 15, 2010 17:09 No CommentsThis video will show you how to create a registry key in your registry that will disable a non essential background process running in your computers operating system. The last access update timestamp exists in your system for updating reporting services in the background of Windows Vista. For those of you who never [...]
Faster Vista! [HD] Ep. 25: Disable DOS Based 8.3 Naming Conventions for Legacy Software
Saturday, January 9, 2010 8:54 No CommentsThis video will show you how to create a registry key in your registry that will disable a non essential background process running in your computer’s operating system. The 8.3 naming convention was engineered for older DOS based systems as a 8.3 filename system that included only 8 characters. This system has been dropped for [...]
Faster Vista! [HD] Ep. 24: Disable Low Disk Space Checks and Hard Drive Polling
Friday, January 8, 2010 17:15 No CommentsThis video will show you how to create a registry key in your registry that will disable a non essential background process running in your computer’s operating system. Windows Vista, like the other operating systems, always polls your computer’s hard drive to check the amount of disk space that is left on it. [...]
Faster Vista! [HD] Ep. 23: Shift the Search Index Indexing Service to a Secondary Hard Drive
Monday, December 28, 2009 18:35 No CommentsToday’s Faster vista video shows you how to adjust the search index indexing service to a secondary hard drive. The reason this is helpful is because your current hard drive utilizes overhead in order to consistently index the files on your system for the search indexing system. This is a very straight forward and easy [...]
Faster Vista! [HD] Ep. 22: Shift the Virtual Memory Paging File to a Secondary Hard Drive
Thursday, December 24, 2009 8:41 No CommentsToday’s video will walk you through shifting the virtual memory paging file to a secondary hard drive. This is a great speedup tip for those of you who are running a secondary hard drive on your computer because it will allow your operating system to reference the second hard drive instead of the primary [...]