Disable 8.3 Naming Convention in XP
By ryan | September 5, 2007
Most people don’t know, but windows creates a backup of every file that has a name longer than 8 characters. This tends to eat up some of those valuable resources I mention from time to time. If you aren’t running any old programs that run on 16 bit (which I doubt you are unless your a hardcore old schooler), or running a lot of stuff through DOS, you can turn this service off and save some resources.
Your going to be making some changes to the Registry.
BEFORE YOU GO ANY FARTHER, MAKE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP! I am not responsible for you screwing up your own computer.
Now that that is out of the way, this is how you do it.
Start > Run > Regedit
Then navigate to this destination.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/FileSystem
Then double click the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation Attribute in the right column and change the value.
0=Enabled
1=Disabled
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