Thread: Guide: Increase hard disk speed

When u install utilities like Tune UP, Win XP manager, super utilities, System Mechanic etc., and click on increase system performance, optimize, etc. then these applications do hundreds of activities and tweaks with ur s/m out of which the above is just a one.
You may not do these manually if u have installed such softwares

Do the following to increase..........


Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.

Expand the system.ini file window.

Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].

Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type



Irq14=4096

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!

Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

Done. Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.
Update: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won't harm your system, so why not try it yourself and let me know what you find

The original TUT is located on BwT..n thanks to desifriend420 for uploading it..I am just sharing..
Hit THANKS if you like my post:001_smile:

First, thanks for contributing... but this tweak is a myth.

1. This tweak was originally for NIC's and someone just changed the IRQ to their HD's IRQ.

2. The System.ini is provided in Windows XP and above for backward compatibility with 16-bit applications (MS-DOS-based programs). They have no effect on any Windows XP settings or 32-bit or 64-bit applications, which are stored in the Registry.

3. Even if it did do something, while IRQ14 is the default setting for the 1st "standard" IDE controller, this doesn't guarantee that it is the HD's IRQ. Also, it wouldn't affect additional IDE HD's nor SATA or SCSI HD's.

Again, thanks for the post, but unfortunately this wont work for anyone. (unless they are running windows 3.1)

Oh then this will atleast help users with windows 3.1 ;)

have read b4, but thanks for the recall

Agreed. Unless you are an ancient computer user, do not edit your system.ini or use this tweak. There is no reason to.

I'd rather not do it anyway becaues it would be to worried of it harming my computer :P

Thanks for the guide.