Prefetch not filled with files :-)

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Lars-Erik Østerud

Because I have greatly changed the startup files etc on my system, I
deleted the contents of the "Prefetch" folder (under "Windows") as
adviced in a knowledge database article. But it's not recreating
itself (as it said it should). I have booted lots of times now, boot
is still slow, no files in the Prefetch folder. What is wrong.

Is there certaid MS programs that should be in the "Run" section, or
certain services that should run to make the boot optimization work?
(I think I have cleaned away all unknown files from the "Run" :-)
 
That's baloney !

I have Task Scheduler permanently disabled and my Prefetch
folder is up-to-date and working properly.
 
Mario skrev:
Is Task Scheduler service running? If not, prefetcher won't work.
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Aha. Grrr. I don't like the Task Scheduler. Can I enable it, let it
prefecth my most used programs and StartUp, and the disable it (will
XP still use the Prefetch data stored even without Task Scheduler)?

BTW: The "layout.ini" file is not rebuilding anyway, is this either
because I have not restarted enough times, or because the disk is
allready defragmented, or is there anything else needed to rebuild?
 
That's baloney !

I have Task Scheduler permanently disabled and my Prefetch
folder is up-to-date and working properly.
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Stranger, it helped me, as soon as I started Task Scheduler the files
where recreated. But it might work stopping it again now, or.... ?
 
TS rebuilds layout.ini.

What TS does is type this

rundll32 advapi32,ProcessIdleTasks

You can force the self tuning by typing either of these two lines

rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

or just the defrag part

defrag c: /b
 
layout.ini is recreated every 3 days at the shortest. So let it be.

Mario Grgic
Senior Software Developer
 
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