Windows Vista Blog

Advanced Disk Performance

March 26th, 2007 by SysAdmin

In this tutorial I will show you how to boost hard drive performance on Microsoft Windows Vista.

Firstly you’ll need to go to Device Manger. Finding Device Manager on Microsoft Windows Vista is a little trickier than in earlier versions of Windows.

How to find Device Manager on Microsoft Windows Vista

• Click Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > System
• On the left side pane click Device Manager

How to Enable Advanced Disk Performance on Microsoft Windows Vista

• In Device Manager, navigate down to Disk drives
• Double click Disk drives
• Right click the hard drive and then click Properties
• Click the Policies tab
• Select Enable advanced performance
• Click OK

Take note of the warnings before enabling this feature and as always back up your data first.