Mark F. wrote:
> John Corliss wrote
>>
>> My Prefetch folder keeps disappearing and I have Prefetch enabled. Is
>> anybody else having this problem and if so, is there a fix for it?
>
> Check the registry key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
> Management\PrefetchParameters
>
> See if the "EnablePrefetcher" value name's DWORD value is set to zero. This
> key has the following values: 0 = Disabled, 1 = Application launch
> prefetching enabled, 2 = Boot prefetching enabled, and 3 = Application
> launch and boot enabled.
>
> The prefetch folder is a "system" folder for the purpose of collecting
> hashes of startup files, to assist in faster startups. If the folder is
> somehow deleted is automatically rebuilt. There is at least one KB article,
> that I know of, that recommends deleting the prefetch files if they become
> corrupted.
Thanks for replying Mark.
Guess I should have stated that once I turned off Prefetching via that
registry key (changed the value to "0") to see if there was any
performance difference. There was, so I re-enabled prefetching. Seems
like the folder disappears every time I reboot. At any rate, I just
checked again (I did so before sending my OP) and the setting is still at 3.
I now have a backed up copy of the folder in the Windows folder and
might set up a restoration batch file to run at system startup.
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John Corliss BS206
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