Should I Disable or Enable 8dot3name?

Should I disable or enable 8dot3name?

Crucial Storage Executive displayed a warning message in the application saying it should be disabled.

Windows 10 Version 1909

See this discussion:

Should you disable 8dot3 for performance and security? | TCAT Shelbyville – Technical Blog

Gary

@Garyw, but when I disabled it I noticed a decrease in performance. So I am thinking I need to re-enable it. How do re-enable it?

Jesse Williams said:

@Garyw, but when I disabled it I noticed a decrease in performance. So I am thinking I need to re-enable it. How do re-enable it?

See if this helps:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...ectedfrom=MSDN

Gary

Garyw said:

See if this helps:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...ectedfrom=MSDN

Gary

@Garyw (Gary), the link you posted doesn't tell me how to re-enable it though.

Open the Command Prompt as a administrator and execute:

Code:

 FSutil 8dot3name set 0

0: Allows creation of 8dot3 names for all drives on the system.

FreeBooter said:

Open the Command Prompt as a administrator and execute:

Code:

 FSutil 8dot3name set 0

0: Allows creation of 8dot3 names for all drives on the system.

@FreeBooter, thank you!

You are very welcome!