This setting will rearrange files on the hard drive when the computer is idle thus improving the performance of the system. Open your registry and find or create the key below. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “EnableAutoLayout” and set it according to the value data below. Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect. Note: The computer must be restarted before the changes take effect.
| (Default) | REG_SZ | (value not set) | |||
| EnableAutoLayout | REG_DWORD | 0×00000001 (1) | |||
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion… | ||


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