Optimize windows, turn off the ‘last accessed’ service on folders

Every time you access your folders, windows will always update the ‘last accessed’ on your folders and all the sub-folders. Not to mention how many folders or sub-folders we have. For faster computer, this is not a problem, but for average or slower one, this simple thing could slower your access through folders and sub-folders. And i’m sure this facility is rarely being used by anyone. So i write this to tell you how to turn that off.

It is actually very easy, you can do it in less than a minute, here you go:

- just open registry window, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | System | CurrentControlSet | Control | FileSystem

- click on FileSystem, right-click on the area of the right window, choose New, DWORD Value

- rename the ‘New Value #1′ to ‘NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate’, then double-click on it, change the value from zero (0) to one (1)

- click Ok and you’re finish.

If this steps is to straight-forward, and you cannot really understand it, you can check my other post about registry editing here, you could learn about editing registry there, because it’s more specific.

This post is quite short, but i hope it could be useful