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Disable the Prefetcher component when troubleshooting startup problems: prefetchCouldn't you delete the contents of the prefetch folder (C:windowsprefetch) for a one shot try instead of hacking the registery?Use this little utilityI've used this utility successfully on both XP Home and Pro, haven't tested it on SP2 though.Find it here:Prefetch Clean and Control UtilityThis used to be hosted on...; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Prefetch Clean; Discussion threads 2005-02-01

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Clean out Windows XP's Prefetch folder to speed up boot times: One of Microsoft's big selling points for Windows XP wasthat it loads applications much faster than its predecessors. To accomplishthis feat, Windows XP uses what is called the "Prefetchtechnique," in which the operating system gathers information about eachprogram that you launch and stores that information in the WindowsPrefetch folder. Then...; Tags: Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Prefetch, Prefetch folder, Prefetch technique; Technical articles 2005-07-20
Missing prefetch folder: Hi all.My laptop XP Home became really slow in booting. I've read something about .pf files, so I tried to look at the c:WindowsPrefetch folder. Surprise: the prefetch folder does not exists, neither any *.pf files. Anyone knows why an how to fix it?Thanks in advance.You will only have a...; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Task Scheduler; Q&A 2005-02-15
Improving Windows XP Performance Part IV: This is a MythWindows Prefetch files are automatically updated and the folder is self cleaning at 128 entries down to the 32 most used applications prefetch files. Nothing gets "bogged down" over time. Unused Prefetch files do nothing but take up disk space and are automatically cleaned by Windows at...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Master Tech; Discussion threads 2007-07-05
preftech - win xp: can anybody tell me what preftech is and how its managed in windows?there's no help available, microsoft dont mention it and there are various fragmented discussions about it in various forumsfrom what i understand its a way of caching programs, but i want to be able to manage how it...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Prefetch, s0lve_it, Value, Value at Risk, Value Name, windows; Q&A 2005-09-11

Event ID 51 and CounterSpy: I was having several Event 51's on my CounterSpy server and could also not connect to any of my clients after migrating this server to VMware. I followed the following help I received from http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/12946/?o=280 I cleared the event 51's and resolved CounterSpy's issue contacting its clients:To change...; Tags: Space Coyote, CounterSpy; Discussion threads 2007-07-11
Windows XP Tweaks . . .: Now that we've explored the basics of how to configure yoursystem to run at an optimum level, let's take a look at a few additional tweaksthat you can make to other areas of your operating system to improveperformance. With just a few small maintenance adjustments, you can have yourXP machine...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Prefetch folder, Prefetch folder-One; Blog posts 2006-05-02
Clean out Windows XP's Prefetch folder to speed up boot times: Clean out Windows XP's Prefetch folder to speed up boot timesarticle rootThis tip is incorrect!As Ed Bott has frequently written:Do not clean out your Prefetch folder!http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000743.htmlHere is an excerpt from Ryan Myers, a developer on Microsoft's Windows Client Performance Team: XP systems have a Prefetch directory underneath the windows root...; Tags: DKlippert, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Prefetch, Prefetch folder, windows; Discussion threads 2005-07-20
Link Prefetching in Mozilla: A Server-Driven Approach: This paper provides a synopsis of a server-driven link prefetching mechanism that have designed and implemented for the Mozilla web browser, a popular Open Source web browser. The mechanism depends on the origin server or an intermediate proxy server determining the best set of documents for the browser to prefetch....; Tags: Mechanism, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet; White papers
Improving Windows XP Performance Part IV: Additional performance-tuners Now that we've explored the basics of how to configure your system to run at an optimum level, let's take a look at a few additional tweaks that you can make to other areas of your operating system to improve performance. With just a few small maintenance...; Tags: Folder, Performance, Microsoft Windows XP, System Restore, Microsoft Windows, Prefetch, Prefetch Folder, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steven Warren; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Ozon (zip): Clean Internet History, Cookies and Typed Urls.Support popular browses include : Internet Explorer,Mozilla Firefox,Netscape,AOL,Opera & avant Browser.Clean Recent temp folder,typed commands in Run & searched files. Delete Programs Recent files list ( more than 25 ) include: Microsoft word, Microsoft powerpoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Flashmx, Adobe...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Internet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites; Software downloads 2006-09-07
Program usage: HiI would like to know how I can find out what programs are used most often on our desktops.I seem to remember that in Win98 there was a file named optlog.log/txt which listed applications and the number of times they were used. This optlog file was used by Windows Defragmenter...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 98, program usage; Q&A 2004-10-07
Windows History Clean Helper (zip): History clean helper is a simple yet powerful privacy-protection tool for removing your Internet-surfing tracks. Your Web browser's built-in privacy functions will not completely and securely delete all your history files, leaving them vulnerable to recovery. History clean helper also can be used to clean your drives so that you...; Tags: History, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2006-04-16
Empty_Prefetch (zip): The prefetch directory is second recycled bin in windows each few this directory add new files so if you like to accelerate your windows empty this directory each 10 minutes , this software is developped by Delphi 06. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Directory, Window, Construction; Software downloads 2007-08-15
AOClean (exe): AOClean will let you erase your Web browser's cache, history, and cookies. Clean up junk files of system and clean Windows temp files folder. You will need only one-step to do all the works. AOClean will try to find and delete such files and clean up some space on your...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Web Browsers, Software, Internet; Software downloads 2005-05-18
Avoid Tweaks of Dubious Value in Windows.: Lets face it ! Tweaking gives us the satisfaction...of having done something to beat the system ! There is that urge, esp amongst die-hard tweakers, to squeeze out the last drop of performance ! Frankly speaking, the best "tweak" is to throw RAM at it ! Its one BIG healthy...; Tags: Performance management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Domain names, happyfromwhere@..., Microsoft Windows, performance, Prefetch Folder, tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, DNS; Discussion threads 2007-07-02
Clean Now (exe): Top-quality file pick and folder cleaning utility. It also provides the ability to ensure your privacy; makes your system clear and error-free. Your system gets a lot of garbage from daily usage and Internet surfing every day. Those unwanted garbage can slow down your system performance, wasting your hard disk...; Tags: Privacy, Liuxz Software, Security; Software downloads 2004-09-06
Cisco Applied Intelligence Response: Identifying and Mitigating Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Clean Access: This paper contains information to assist Cisco customers in mitigating attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities in Cisco Clean Access described above. Certain versions of Cisco Clean Access are affected by two vulnerabilities that may allow a malicious user to gain control over a Clean Access Server and cause a denial...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Vulnerability, Cisco Systems Inc.; White papers 2007-01-04
Windows Vista: SuperFetch and External Memory Devices: If you've been using Windows for any length of time, you'revery familiar with the terms virtual memory and paging file. In the past we allspent lots of time tweaking virtual memory settings in order to make the pagingfile as efficient as possible on our poor memory deprived systems. Then, the...; Tags: Greg Shultz, memory, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system, RAM, Superfetch, virtual memory; Technical articles 2006-02-16
disk: hello!!i got a blue srceen messege that said to check make sure if the disk is adequate disk space.Any suggestion .thanksGive us a little help. How much space do you have left and how much RAM to you have?Your Pagefile will take 1.5 times your RAM or...; Tags: disk; Q&A 2005-04-06

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