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Are there any negative effects of disabling the Last Access timestamp?

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Mar 15, 202624699 views
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In Windows, you can disable the last accessed timestamp by setting NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate to 1, for instance by executing this from the command line (the computer must be restarted before it takes effect): I want to do so there is less disk activity on . Might this cause any negative effects o…

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fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

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You wouldn't be able to tell if someone else was reading your files - for example if you had some sensitive data. I can't think of an OS level command that would need last accessed. Backups check last modified and date created for example. But see @…

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