Windows XP Registry Tweak Last Access Update

Why
The purpose of this Registry Tweak, is to reduce the amount of Hard Disk activity of a target computer, and potentially reduce disk space used (though this would be by such a minor amount that space is hardly worth mentioning).

Every time you access a file, Windows logs when this was and saves the change to the file, this can be viewed when Right-clicking a file and there is a property called "Accessed"

How
To prevent this from being used, we open up the registry, by clicking start, run and typing in regedit and click ok. You are now viewing the Windows Regisry Editor, information in here is stored similarly to files in folders, the "folder" you wish to go into, is

Now in the list on the right side of the screen, you need to Right-click, New, DWORD Value, you need to name this "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate" Without the quote marks, it is best to copy and paste this, as it is case sensitive. now that the string is on the screen, you need to double-click it and in "value data" enter the number 1, "base" change to decimal and then click ok.

The last step is to simply restart your computer for the changes to take effect.