why won't write-behind stay disabled?

I've used Control Panel/System and regedit to disable drive
write-behind on windows 98 but it always turns itself back on. After
about two or three days it goes back to write-behind enabled.

How do I disable drive write-behind for all drives (internal and
removable) and make drive-behind remain disabled in windows 98?

Why would you want to do something like that?
http://216.15.201.66/dpec/courses/wt3/wt3ac.htm#wtb015
should give you some pointers.


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"Olive" wrote in message
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I've used Control Panel/System and regedit to disable drive
write-behind on windows 98 but it always turns itself back on. After
about two or three days it goes back to write-behind enabled.

How do I disable drive write-behind for all drives (internal and
removable) and make drive-behind remain disabled in windows 98?

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:34:52 -0000, "Noel Paton"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Why would you want to do something like that?
http://216.15.201.66/dpec/courses/wt3/wt3ac.htm#wtb015
should give you some pointers.

I would think that write-behind caching could result in file system
problems if the system crashes before data are written to the drive.

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:34:52 -0000, "Noel Paton"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Why would you want to do something like that?
http://216.15.201.66/dpec/courses/wt3/wt3ac.htm#wtb015
should give you some pointers.

I would think that write-behind caching could result in file system
problems if the system crashes before data are written to the drive.


- and what are the realistic chances of that happening, when the cache is
emptied/written after 5 seconds in Win98? the chance is greater that you'll
see a system slowdown without the cache than you'll lose more data (than you
would otherwise have lost).
The only sites that I've seen recommending this dubious tweak are those
dealing with music manipulation - and I have little confidence in their
ability to improve over the default.
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I still have not received a workable answer.
I want to disable drive write-behind and make the settings stick.
How do I do this? Thanks.

I'd still like to know why you feel it's necessary?

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"Olive" wrote in message
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I still have not received a workable answer.
I want to disable drive write-behind and make the settings stick.
How do I do this? Thanks.

Have a look in your system.ini file
do you have any entries in the [vcache] section??

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"Olive" wrote in message
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I still have not received a workable answer.
I want to disable drive write-behind and make the settings stick.
How do I do this? Thanks.

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:18:45 GMT, (Olive) put
finger to keyboard and composed:

I still have not received a workable answer.
I want to disable drive write-behind and make the settings stick.
How do I do this? Thanks.

FWIW, there is a DriveWriteBehind entry at this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\FileSystem

A setting of "00 00 00 00" disables caching while "ff ff ff ff"
enables it.

Perhaps someone could recommend a background application that monitors
registry changes???

- Franc Zabkar
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If your recovery procedure involves restoring an earlier version of the
registry then this could cause the setting to revert. Then you wouldn't
know whether or not it had changed before the problem occurred.

Of course, it's always possible that the registry is getting corrupted, for
instance as a result of a memory error. However in this case I would expect
that the symptoms were more variable and much more widespread.

Consider what utilities you are running that might be trying to 'optimise'
your system behind your back, or utilities that need to manipulate Windows'
settings for their own purposes, such as diagnostics, and may not be
restoring things to how they were.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Olive" wrote in message
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I still have not received a workable answer.
I want to disable drive write-behind and make the settings stick.
How do I do this? Thanks.