Reinstalling Windows is a clean slate for your PC. Most of us only do it when we have to, but some friends of mine just treat it as regular PC maintenance. One way or another, it is one of the most ...

Windows has a lot of random settings that most of us never dig our way to. For some of them, that's actually a good thing, and one of them is "Turn off write-cache buffer flushing." While it looks ...

As businesses adopt a broader range of applications and extend virtualization to make the most of computing resources, IT professionals are doing everything they can to improve application performance ...

Is it possible to disable write-behind caching/delayed writes in Windows 2000 for removable drives? Windows 9x had this option (System Properties > Performance > File System > Removable Disk). I have ...

We are running Windows Server 2008 (with Hyper-V enabled) on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 III. I've just noticed that the Server 2008 Guest VM(s) has 'Write Cache' enabled on the 'Virtual HD ATA Device ...

Has your computer been running a little slow? Have you experienced mysterious freezes during loading times? Or perhaps you're low on storage and want to reclaim some disk space. Your first step for ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While cache files help a computer remember specific usage patterns and deliver a smooth user experience, too many cache files can clutter your ...