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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

Fasterfox - Irresponsible?

I was just browsing Firefox extensions and found Fasterfox. http://tinyurl.com/b3t6tDo you consider this to be a valuable addition to Firefox or an irresponsible resource hog?Burden is on the UserI think that if the technology is there, it should be used. It is the burden of the end user to...

Tags: Web browsers, Choppit, Fasterfox

Discussion threads 2005-11-30

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

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

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

Additional Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Automatic System Cleaner (exe)

Automatic System cleaner is an easy-to-use utility that cleans your computer on a manual and scheduled basis. It keeps your system running fast by cleaning away unwanted files that occupy memory and consume processor resources. It automatically searches your hard disk and removes junk files, browser history files, temporary and...

Tags: Web Browser, File, Web Browsers, Processors, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2007-04-25

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

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

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