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I found this topic on search for Windows 8 FS tweaks. Ive seen some improvements on copy times to USB in Windows 8.1 which were horrible in windows 8 but the reverse on disk to disk copy. A music application I use is much slower on loading a song which accesses multiple small files than it used to be. I notice there are lots of tweaks for increasing file system caching on Windows Vista and Windows 7 and i'm wondering if any of these registry tweaks apply to windows 8 ? What disappoints me greatly about Microsoft is how poor they are on providing tuning data and tools for disk and memory storage. In Windows 8.1 advanced performance properties tells me the recommended paging file is 5GB but it is set automatically to 16GB. There is no documentation i can find telling why that is recommended or set. Being from a storage background its mostly just persistence. You just run the same application over and over again and tweak. I get that there focus is on general performance reliablity and security but with Microsoft having a 100,000 employees worldwide having a small dedicated team of 10 focussed on performance tuning seem reasonable and sensible. I would offer this to anyone who has upgraded a 'came with the operating system" laptop or desktop PC with a hard disk. These often come with a 20GB hidden manfacturer partition on the outside (fastest) part of the disk holding the OEM operating system and asssociated malware. This is wasted space once you upgrade to Windows 8. Why the manufacturers put this on the outside not the inside of the disk is it saves a few minutes on copy times in manufacturing. This saving costs customers in performance over the lifetime of the PC. While it is not a simple task for the uninitiated deleting this partition and making it available to windows 8 can add up to 20GB of the best performing part of the disk to you.