Windows Prefetch

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The windows prefetch system appears to have stopped working. The
folder "prefetch" under windows is empty, and I have noticed that the system
seems to be taking longer to load recently. Is there some setting that has
changed to cause this?
 
I've checked the registry settings mentioned in this article, and all
seems to be correct. Is there some task that I may have inhibited that might
cause this action?
 
I have since found out that the problem was caused by changing the "Task
Scheduler" task from "automatic" to "manual". Turning this service back to
"automatic" has solved the problem.
 
I have since found out that the problem was caused by changing the "Task
Scheduler" task from "automatic" to "manual". Turning this service back to
"automatic" has solved the problem.
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Who in their right and wrong minds would set that task to Manual? It's
a task scheduler it needs to be running to run tasks. Regular tasks
like anti virus scans and updates can't happen if it's disabled?

Reminds me of a return I got at a company I used to work for.

Customer complains of very poor wireless performance. After going
through some troubleshooting with him, checking all his settings,
resetting and reconfiguring, it turns out to be, the antennas were
never screwed on, they arrived back shrink wrapped and never touched.

Now, tell me again, have you set it up as per the manual?
Jason Marshall
Australian Unemployed IT Technician/ASP Web Developer.
Email me: (e-mail address removed).

ATTN: Help Others: Please keep all replies to my posts in the newsgroup.
Failure to do so can result in your message not being answered.
 
You say that virus scans and updates for example don't work if task
scheduler is in "manual", but my system performs those actions quite
satisfactorily with the scheduler in manual!
 
Jason Marshall said:
Who in their right and wrong minds would set that task to Manual? It's
a task scheduler it needs to be running to run tasks. Regular tasks
like anti virus scans and updates can't happen if it's disabled?

Reminds me of a return I got at a company I used to work for.

Customer complains of very poor wireless performance. After going
through some troubleshooting with him, checking all his settings,
resetting and reconfiguring, it turns out to be, the antennas were
never screwed on, they arrived back shrink wrapped and never touched.

Now, tell me again, have you set it up as per the manual?
Jason Marshall
Australian Unemployed IT Technician/ASP Web Developer.
Email me: (e-mail address removed).

ATTN: Help Others: Please keep all replies to my posts in the newsgroup.
Failure to do so can result in your message not being answered.
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Oh God, not another idiot who uses the help newsgroups to belittle those who
ask for help!
What is it with you morons anyway? Thank God there are so few of you on
these groups who need this kind of self gratification.
The man posted asking for advice. Either help him or don't help him, but
don't use the GD newsgroup to show the world how great YOU are because you
happen to know something someone else might not know about a GD computer.
Why don't you take this unfortunate crap over to the alt.sadistic.I'm better
than you are newsgroup.
Good God, grow up!
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot; CFI; Retired
dhenriquestrashatearthlinktrashdotnet
(take out the trash :-)
 
AV software and Windows Update are usually services in their own right and
do not depend on the Task Scheduler.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Good to know, thanks for the feedback.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
WU and AV updates run their "own" scheduler services to perform these tasks
regardless of the state of the "windows scheduler service". So who or shall
I say whom is/is not in the right mind now?

Personally I don't give a hoot about scheduling things via windows, and true
with XP the "prefetch" don't work, but with today's fast harddrives and
controllers, who cares about the milliseconds the prefetch is going to save
with applications, plus I rarely reboot the PC and when I do, I go get a cup
of coffee, again only saving mere milliseconds per application.

--
Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service!
"Google is your Friend!"
www.google.com

***********************************************
 
Dudley, now you know why he's unemployed ....
Dudley Henriques said:
Oh God, not another idiot who uses the help newsgroups to belittle those
who ask for help!
What is it with you morons anyway? Thank God there are so few of you on
these groups who need this kind of self gratification.
The man posted asking for advice. Either help him or don't help him, but
don't use the GD newsgroup to show the world how great YOU are because you
happen to know something someone else might not know about a GD computer.
Why don't you take this unfortunate crap over to the alt.sadistic.I'm
better than you are newsgroup.
Good God, grow up!
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot; CFI; Retired
dhenriquestrashatearthlinktrashdotnet
(take out the trash :-)
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