Hey everyone and welcome to another HD tutorial. And in this video today, I’ll be going over how to enable advanced and basically more optimized computer performance based on an external hard drive or a hard disk that you have.
So right now, I have plugged in to my USB, I have a little USB drive and we want to speed this up and enable it for optimized performance because we’re not going to be removing a whole lot. This also works if you have let’s say an external drive or something so what we’re going to do is just click on the start button and it works on XP or Vista, right click on my computer, and hit the manage button, and if UAC does pop up allow anything that UAC asks for, so just like continue or allow anything whatever it asks.
So, this is the computer management window, this is how you managed everything. We’re going to go through device manager, it’s going to be under the system tools 1. And then we’re going to go over here on the right hand side and expand disk drives, so I’m going to click on it just to expand it. And here you’ll see this is my external hard drive, my 7200RPM 250 gig internal hard drive and next I want to unplug right now. And here is the USB flash memory device that I plugged in with storage on it. But I want to enable advanced hard drive performance simply right click and go to properties. This USB flash memory properties and devices window comes up, hit the policy’s tab and here you’ll optimize for quick removal or for performance.
If you optimize it for a quick removal, it’s disabling caching on the disk, so information is not readily available in your cache or however you want to call it. But if you optimize it for performance here it enables disk writing to the windows cache, to your cache to improve disk performance. So, I’m just going to hit okay. And for those that asks for a restart, you’ll hit yes, and I will recommend restarting it as soon as you make this changes but I’m going to hit no for the purpose of finishing this video. But that’s basically and so you can right click in properties and advanced performance. Now, obviously this is my internal hard drive, so I’ve checked the enable advanced performance I got. Now, if you’re running on a lap top, you don’t want to have your internal hard drive on advanced performance unless you run out on a battery because if you do lose battery or power for some reason and that would be really bad, you might actually lose data or completely have an unusable drive.
Well, that is how to enable advanced disk performance on your windows machine. I hope this tutorial was helpful. If you do have any other tutorial, ideas or requests for me, go ahead and subscribe and I will get to them as soon as I can. So, thanks for watching this video and stay tuned for more, peace!
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