Improve system performance by disabling DOS 8.3 naming convention

, I briefly mentioned MFT fragmentation. So what is the
cause of fragmentation. Well most common cause is too much use. As with
anything excessive use causes fragmentation. Activities of
add/update/delete to a section of disk would invariable cause it to
fragment. So there is no permanent solution as we can not avoid these acts.
As such it is a good idea to use disk defragmenter regularly. Contiguous
data which results from defragmenting disk, improves system performance
considerably. But what I am suggesting you here would prolong intervals
between defragmentations resulting in more time for your own productive
work. OK! This tip is for those folks would never be using a DOS based
program or don't care for connection from DOS based operating systems
(example: old games and all things before windows 95). In Windows XP, two
file names are created for each file one is the actual name and another one
is 8.3 version of that file name for compatibility with DOS based programs.
Now this work name in the name of compatibility takes quite a lot of system
resources specifically CPU time and disk space.But this is not it, it also
increases your MFT utilization and fragmentation. So the solution is to
disable it. How to do this ? Open Registry by going to START-RUN and
entering REGEDIT and Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. In right
pane, look for key by the name "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" and sets its
value to 1. Thats it. You would see improvement in system performance for
sure.