Tuning HD for better performance

[d94ccm]

I am trying to improve the performance of my PC as it is running much slower when multi tabling with PT3 i have been looking through the PAQ for help and fount the post on Tuning your hard drive, i have defragmented my computer and am looking to improve some of the other areas. However i am getting the following results

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Olly>
C:\Users\Olly>fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
The FSUTIL utility requires that you have administrative privileges.

C:\Users\Olly>

Now it is obviously my home computer but i have no idea how to accessadministrator privlages.

I'm sorry if i'm asking really stupid questions here that i should know.

Regards

Olly

[kraada]

Hit the windows key, type 'cmd' and then press ctrl+shift+enter and then you'll have administrator privileges in that command prompt and the command should work normally.

[d94ccm]

Thanks for the help,

i did as you said and got the following:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

C:\Windows\system32>

Nothing saying that it has changed or anything like that, has this been successfull?

[kraada]

That means it finished successfully, yes.

[d94ccm]

Thanks for all the help with this. Unfortunately i have foud that my computer is now actually running slower than before is this a possibility from the commands i have given it?

[kraada]

It's pretty unlikely; you told your computer to not do a bunch of stuff it used to do. That time should be freed up for doing other things.

Perhaps it might be useful to download Ccleaner and give it a try?

[d94ccm]

ok so i did that and it cleared up 790mb of stuff, thanks for the tip, and it has speeded it up some what but it is still way laggier than it ever was.

Recently i inserted a new graphics card to allow me to run two monitors, and i run then at theire highest resolution it was not the most expensive of cards i must say but when ever i began running multiple programmes, say 4 tables, PT3 and a video recording device to record my play the computer slowed right down. Now even starting up my system and opening explorer takes longer than it used to. Do you think any of that might be the issue?

[kraada]

As long as you're not currently recording that you did record once shouldn't continue to slow things down, but I'm not sure what's causing this for you.

If you enable logging (Configure --> Options --> Logging Enabled and restart PT3) and attempt to import while playing for one full orbit then attach the C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\PokerTracker.log and C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\PokerTrackerHud.log files to a support ticket and we'll look into what could be causing this for you to see if it's anything on our end that we can fix.