Use Asynchronous or Synchronous Buffer Commits (Windows 95/98/Me)
This setting changes function calls to the File-Commit API to return immediately back without checking the data has been correctly written to the disk drive. By default Windows uses synchronous buffer commits, this setting allows you to enable asynchronous as an alternative for applications that may need this functionality.
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Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "AsyncFileCommit" 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.
| (Default) | REG_SZ | (value not set) | |||
| AsyncFileCommit | REG_DWORD | 0x00000001 (1) | |||
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSyst... | ||
Value Name: AsyncFileCommit
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = sync, 1 = async)
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Last modified: May 14, 2002
















