for a johnny come lately you seem to think your are all knowledgeable.
the problems with prefetch were discussed during beta testing of it and
microsoft chose to ignore the problems.
as I said one of the biggest problems is the failure to remove entries when
a program is uninstalled. it exists and has since day one of prefetch.
if you wish to get testy, I'm sure problems can be found with over 50% of
your postings.
no matter how many times you refuse to believe it still does help.
the system will eventually get bogged down again.
it is a fallacy because microsoft want you to believe so.
there many defects in prefetch.
biggest is the failure to remove items when you uninstall a program.
there by when you boot prefetch still chases its tail looking for the
program.
prefetch is supposed to clean out older items but it always fails to do
so.
have seem items older than 3 months on some systems for programs that
had
been uninstalled.
same thing is going on with vista and superfetch/prefetch.
running xp I have regularly deleted the contents including the layout
file
and have never had it fail to rebuild.
another urban myth.
(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com
if you delete the contents, there is NO layout.ini file to process.
that's the whole reason for deleting.
Removing the contents of the Prefetch folder is one of the handful
of
"Dubious" tweaks for Windows XP. All it does is makes XP wait to
process the .Pf data into the Layout.Ini file requiring a few
reboots
&
the ProcessIdleTasks to run. Purging Prefetch won't improve boot
times.
you can change items from auto start at boot to using Task Scheduler
to
start them after boot and a delay.
you get to the desktop quicker but the programs still have to load
and
start
eventually.
or you might just give this a try.'
delete the contents of the PREFETCH folder. just the contents not
the
folder.
reboot 2-3 times.
Trying to minimize time from power on to desktop. I have XP Pro
on
a
new
Toshiba S3 with 2Gb memory. Would appreciate guidance on this and
on
how
to capture and restore registry if needed.
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Deleting the contents of the prefetch folder to speed up boot times is
an
urban myth that has no substance in fact. It slows down the boot up
because
prefetch needs to then be rebuilt.
There is no evidence that deleting prefetch improves boot time, in fact
all
the evidence is to the contrary. No matter how much you want to believe
something doesn't make it so.
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Clearing prefetch does nothing to speed up the system. That fact has
been
objectively studied and documented by several sources. If you wish to
cling
to that belief feel free but if you try to propagate it to others in here,
you'll be called on it.
This system has never had prefetch cleared, and it hasn't bogged down, in
the over 4 1/2 years it's had XP running. Proper maintenance is what's
needed, along with good hardware, and good software.
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Fine you want the last word, go ahead, but if you maintain this as a
solution to people I or someone else will answer up that it has no value.
