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Windows Tip of the Month.

Automatically optimize your hard drive.

One of the most overlooked keys to system performance is to optimize your hard drive on a regular basis. Unfortunately most people forget to do it or simply aren't aware that it is one of the most important maintenance tasks to perform on a regular basis. Typically, you optimize your hard drive using Windows' Defrag utility. But there's a great registry hack that will force Win XP to automatically optimize the location of files when your PC is idle.

NOTE: Please do NOT do this without first backing up your registry!

1. Open RegEdit and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
OptimalLayout

2. Find the string called EnableAutoLayout, and change its data value to 1. (If this string doesn't exist, create it and set the value to 1.)