Accelerate the access to files formatted on an NTFS file partition

When you are working on an NTFS partition, the access time to folders as well as files can take a long time. The more files or folders that you have, the longer the access time seem to be. This is due to an update on the NTFS partition which stores the last date and time a file or folder was accessed. If this information doesn’t interest you then you you don’t plan on auditing your folders then it may be a good move to disable this function.

Here is how it can be done:

Click “Start”, “run” and type “regedit”. Click on “OK” and the Windows Registry will open.

Go to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Add a new DWORD value called NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate

Then give this a value of 1 in the values field.

You can also download this reg file that will create the changes for you!

Reboot your computer so that the changes take effect.