If you have a SATA disk in your Vista Machine, checkout the properties for the SATA disk in the system properties. There's a setting called enable advanced performance in the Vista properties which is disabled by default. The setting is an optional setting for enabling write caching on the Sata disk. The setting "Enable write caching on disk" is enabled by default on Sata disks in Windows Vista, but the second setting enable advanced performance is not enabled by default in Windows Vista.

As you can see in the result below.


To set the advanced performance setting in Windows Vista do the following:

1) Rightclick the my computer icon on the Vista desktop and click Manage.

2) Then click on the device manager in the Computer Management Window to be able to select the SATA Disk which is located under Disk Drives.


As shown above in first iamge select the enable advanced performance on the SATA disk and restart Windows Vista to make the setting work.


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