By default, any Windows installation that is using the NTFS file system (that is, almost any installation of Windows 2000 or later) updates each file with a date stamp every time it is accessed. If you don't think this feature is useful, save yourself some unnecessary disk access by disabling it. Note that this is not the same feature as the 'file last modified on:' information that appears when you bring up the properties of a file in Explorer, so disabling last access update will not disable that information.
To disable last access file updating:
Open the 'start' menu, type 'regedit' and hit Enter.
Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem'
Change the value of the 'NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate' DWORD to '1'.
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Jun 18, 2008
Disable last access file update
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