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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- TuneXP (exe)
- This radical, new tool is one of the best and most powerful Windows XP tweakers ever, having a few tweaks, which are unique to the program. Among them are: ultrafast boot rearrange boot files; boot folder defragmentation; prefetch folder cleaning; DNS cache optimization; and file allocation size tweak. However, that...
- Tags: Performance, Tweak, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2004-05-22
- 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
- Slow boot-up time on XP
- Please help. After my bios has booted normally, Windows XP takes around 3 to 4 minutes to boot. What the heck is going on? I've tried a lot of things (defrag, memory check, BIOS tweaking, etc...) but to no aveil. The only thing I haven't tried is to reinstall but...
- Tags: BIOS, vrouleau@..., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Use XP's Prefetch feature to improve system performance
- Computers do what you tell them to do, when you tell them to do it. If you want to start a program, you double-click the icon and the program loads. To help speed up the process, Windows XP tries to predict what you want before you want it. Using its...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, John Sheesley, Microsoft Windows, workstation
- Technical articles 2004-03-17
- FolderMasker (exe)
- Folder mask unlike our Folder Locker, Folder Mask will hide any folder You chose from user eyes. (Folder Mask doesn't use compression methods) Folder Mask uses different technique to hide and mask a folder. This small program good to be used at home to hide folders from kids or for...
- Tags: Folder, Productivity, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2006-12-04
- Folder Latch (exe)
- Folder Latch allows you to protect and lock your folder and files from unauthorized users. Tested up to 3.5 GB. Before you use it make sure you have valid permissions to that folder, subfolders and all objects within. Also try it with a test folder first. Folder Latch is easy...
- Tags: Folder, Folder Latch, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-04-04
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