Program caching?

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Phylum

I have several programs that when loaded for the first
time seem to take forever. If you leave the program and
come back, however, it loads in an instant. Is this some
type of program caching? Is there a way to turn it off?
 
Yes, there is essentially program caching. There's two
types. Some programs need various things loaded in
addition to themselves, when the program exits, those
additional things hang around for a tiny bit just in case
you want to relaunch the program.

Also, Windows keeps around certain information that
allows it to launch programs that were just running much
faster than the first time around. This information gets
flushed as other programs need the space taken up by this
information.

There's not really a way to "turn it off" depending on
what actually is happening with the program, why do you
want to?
 
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