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Windows 8 External Hard Drive Enclosure Uselessly Slow

I have just upgraded my operating system to Windows 8, and am trying to use my external hard drive enclosure. However, when I try to use it, it is uselessly slow. Often times Windows explorer will ...
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What is the purpose of frequent I/O operations on “/Device/Mup” on windows?

For example, from Process Monitor app: There is very little web information about it suprisingly; not even about what "\device\mup" is. edit: Further information: Command Line of process ...
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How does FileStream appends physically works?

I was dealing with a prepending problem and suddenly leads me to think about this question.... Maybe not only related to FileStream, I want to know how we actually appends binary into a file ...
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Is it bad if millions of files are stored in one NTFS folder?

I have a very large NTFS volume with more than 20TB capacity and containing millions of files. If I put all of the files in the same folder, I know the performance is bad when I open the folder in ...
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Dedicate IO priority to a process [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7? On Windows (7 in this case) it's possible to dedicate CPU priority to a process to make it go faster. In most ...
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Tracking I/O Operations

On a Windows PC (specifically Windows 7, in this case), is there a method or tool that can be used to track / monitor the I/O operations being performed on the machine? Perhaps something similar to ...
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Slow performance during moderate/high IO

Windows XP machine suffering from slow performance during maintained IO, either network or disk. CPU & memory usage are both minimal, system+interrupts usage < 5% according Process Explorer. ...
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is it possible to break I/O blocking with a bad CD/DVD (read errors) in windows?

I find it very frustrating when I insert a CD that has read errors on it and windows freezes up for a long time. What is the fastest way to break this blocking? I usually kill explorer.exe and restart ...
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How do you monitor I/O on individual devices in windows?

Can anyone tell me if there's a handy little utility out there that will monitor and display the I/O charts for individual drives on windows? On linux Gkrellm is great for this.
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Optimizing I/O on Windows

Im currently building a new PC, the specification is below: Windows 7 Ultimate Intel Core 2 Due 2.6 2GB Ram Hard Drives 150GB Sata 180GB Sata 200GB Sata 512MB Express GFX Card Now my question(s) ...
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What's making my disk thrash in Windows XP?

I have a sick Windows XP laptop; something's making the disk thrash and the entire system is sluggish to unresponsive a few minutes after boot. How do I figure out what is making the disk thrash? Task ...