Tweak Library – Change the Size of the Windows File Protection Cache

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Change the Size of the Windows File Protection Cache(Disk Space)

This setting lets you control the maximum amount of space available to be consumed by the backup DLLs.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000

Description:

Windows File Protection (WFP) saves copies of common DLL files and replaces them if the original gets damaged/lost.

WFP uses an unlimited amount of disk space for its cache of system files but you can adjust according to your requirements.

To change the size of the cache, you will have to make some changes in the registry key.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Create a REG_DWORD value name " SFCQuota" (if this value doesn't exist). Right Click on the Option “SFCQuota”, and from the drop down menu, select Modify. Enter the value as you would feel safe to enable the setting. Here, 200MB has been considered safe.

Close the registry.

Restart the system.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

SFCQuota

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

200

Disabled value :

Other value :

For example, 50Mb would be 0x00000032 (50) and 200Mb would be 0x000000c8 (200).

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type 'regedit'.

Next, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\] and create a DWORD value as 'SFCQuota'.

Now, right click on the DWORD value 'SFCQuota' and select 'Modify'.

Finally set a User Defined Value in the value data to set the Size of the Windows File Protection Cache and click 'OK'.