If you want to improve performance of your SATA hard drive, here is a quick little tweak in Vista that should give some improvements over the default settings.

Speed up SATA performance in Vista:

  • Open the device manager: click start -> right click computer -> click properties -> click device manager in left column
  • Goto the disk drive section
  • Right click your hard disk
  • Click the policies tab
  • Check the box “Enable advanced performance”

Your SATA drive(s) should now run faster!!