Comments on: Virtual Machine tweaks for a better performance

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:58:19 +0000

how do you mean getting in to the site? it’s a “0″ (zero) by the way and not an o.

By: Ray Siracusa

Ray Siracusa — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:41:45 +0000

I have made many attempts to run the FSUTIL behavior set disablelastaccess o. So far i have had no success in getting into the site and nothig happens

By: Nick78

Nick78 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:17:20 +0000

Jaron,

I don’t think it will cause a problem because the incremental/differential backups look at the time the file was modified, not accessed if I remember correctly.

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By: Jaron

Jaron — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:52 +0000

With Virtual Consolidated Backup and Backup Exec you can only do incremental or differential backups based on a file’s last modified date because you cannot change the files archive bit during the backup. Will step 2 of these tweaks cause any problems with this kind of backup?

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By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:10:01 +0000

If it’s Active Directory using Group Policy is the best approach.

By: storm

storm — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:34:04 +0000

Can you document the useless drivers and services?

By: Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:40:58 +0000

I usually copy the administrator profile to the default user profile.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:57:33 +0000

Another way to do step two is in the registry itself:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
Value Name: NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: 1

… but your command line way is “safer”!

Quick question on steps 3 & 4: The methods that you outline only affects the current person logged in; do you know of a way to set this for the entire machine? I haven’t found an obvious group policy setting to do as such.