How to shut off write cache to network drive

[Leslie Charles]

I have been looking for a way to shut off write caching under XP Home. I
know this is likely a performance hit. This is a trouble shooting thing to
see if it eliminates occasional curuption of a shared file on the network on
a Win98 machine. I see some comparable capabilities in Win98, but can't
seem to locate any controls for this in XP. The closest I find is in the
policies window under my hard drive properties, but even there the option is
greyed out. I am looking for either a global option or a network drive
option. Can anyone point the way?

 

[Lance Zielinski]

Leslie,

I am not sure that your problem is write caching as much as it is the
Indexing Service. Try this.

Open My Computer, right click on the networked drive, select properties.
Under the general tab, uncheck "Allow Indexing Services to index this disk
for fast file searching"
Click Apply, then OK

What this will do is remove a "hook" that your computer has to the remote
network drive. It may help your network perf issues, if you're experiencing
latency due to this network drive.

Let me know if that helps you out!