Windows 7 fsutil disable8dot3

Display a random link name for the file ID in most cases the file ID will only have one link name :. Deleting or setting an object identifier can result in the loss of data from portions of a file, up to and including entire volumes of data.

Determine whether short filenames are causing the problem. Launch a command prompt with administrator privileges. Type fsutil behavior query disable8dot3 and press Enter. If the output of the command is 1, then proceed to Manually create short file paths. Manually create short file paths.

Log out of your current user account and log in to another Administrative account. Launch an administrative command prompt. Set short filenames. Sign in here. Windows 7 Existing user? MSFN is made available via donations, subscriptions and advertising revenue. The use of ad-blocking software hurts the site. Please disable ad-blocking software or set an exception for MSFN. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts.

Posted June 20, The fsutil 8dot3name strip was introduced in Server and in Win 7 and it is a clear indication that the backwards compatibility will be ditched. And about the installers, none of the bit installers work in x64 no matter how bit the program itself is. No more crappy code that was able to execute in XP. Sure, some users will need 8dot3 names but the majority does not. Also in addition to 8dot3 tweaks disabling lastaccess timestamp accelerates file system. Take the 8dot3 tweak or not, i'm not forcing anyone, i'm just saying that there is very little point in 8.

Stripping 8dot3names creates a log file automatically and the command prompt will tell where the log file is. The stripping also scans registry and tells how many registry keys are affected. On Win 7 installation 4 registry keys are affected and all those 4 keys point to 4.

If stripping your files and system completely from 8dot3 names gives you doubts about one thing you can do is to test - no changes are made. All operations except the actual removal of the 8dot3 file names are performed. You can use test mode to discover which registry keys point to files that use the 8dot3 file names. I guess soon people will say fsutil repair is unneeded cuz there's always the boot time chkdsk that takes ages for large disks.

I can't see this having any affect on performance, since the 8. As for it being a sign of reduced backwards compatibility, the ability to prevent the creation of 8.

MS says it does improve performance It does less work, so obviously it will be faster , but they're talking about decade old systems running 2K or XP. And even though it will improve performance I seriously doubt it's enough to matter I doubt it was enough to matter a decade ago either. People your taking 8. And not everybody run on quadcore.

I have a dualcore. Not focusing on cores, I totally experience a faster file system, with 8. File operations like reading, writing, copying, moving, extracting, packing and even executing is faster. While disabling 8. It's quite a long time Vista was released and two years after 7 was released. It is safe to strip 8. And true it is, that strip has not been benchmarked. I too, am interested of benchmarks. While i'm happy about the reduced burden on disk - those things does not last forever in away mobo, cpu or ram can.

Microsoft programmers are not lazy, stupid, bad, idiots, or whatever - someone who pretends to know an OS better than the guys who designed it should be ignored. Unless you are willing to create an easily reproducible benchmarks which clearly shows the performance gain you are talking about.. To be fair there are certain situations where this is helpful and there are no drawbacks.