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Why is Windows so slow?

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337 points kristianp | 1 comments | 19 Dec 11 06:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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prewett ◴[19 Dec 11 09:07 UTC] No.3369039[source]▶
I suspect it has something to do with NTFS updating access times by default. So every time you do anything with a file, it gets its access time updated (not modification time, access time). I don't have windows to test on, but you could try the suggestions [1][2] below.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940846(v=winembedd...

[2] http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html (#8)

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1. RexRollman ◴[19 Dec 11 11:26 UTC] No.3369288[source]▶
The updating of last access time has been disabled since the release of Windows Vista (although you can turn it back on):

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2006/11/07/disabl...