Vista Tutorial - Superfetch - Change Preload Data

**Brink** · 11-25-2007

How to Change What Superfetch will Preload in Vista

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Click here to read the entire tutorial

**MilesAhead** · 07-07-2008

When you say "deactivating Superfetch service" are you talking about disabling the service or using the registry tweak? In my experience simply setting the service to disabled produced a lot of HD activity after the desktop comes up whereas setting it to only cache boot files seemed to work best. Manually stopping it works too but you have to remember to do it or set up some kind of task to do it so many minutes after boot.

It's weird because my machine will go for days with an empty file in ReadyBoot folder, then just last night it decided to churn for awhile and now I have a 20 MB file there.
Seems a bit unpredictable.

**beauparc** · 07-07-2008

Hi Brink.

Unfortunately your .reg file didn't work for me so I decided to do things the manual way.

I don't have a controlset 001. I have 002, 003 and 005

I have changed the parameters in each of these for Boot Files only. Is this OK?

**Brink** · 07-07-2008

Hello Beauparc,

I have updated the tutorial to have it work correctly for you this time. Try it again. The controlset ### are backups, it should have been written to CurrentControlSet instead.

Shawn

**beauparc** · 07-08-2008

Cheers Shawn.

**Brink** · 07-08-2008

Your welcome Beauparc.

Shawn

**MilesAhead** · 07-14-2008

Hmmmmmmm it is a strange beast! I had a 0 length ReadyBoot.etl file and as soon as I deleted it, bang! A 20 MB file was written there!! It was instant! Maybe the file already existing kept it from writing? Weird!

**CGA** · 07-15-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

MilesAhead,

I do not have that hidden Walk Start Pages task. What is it a part of?

Yeah, the prefetch shouldn't change much with just the boot files since they usually do not change often.

LOL, you can't fix it unless you break it though.

Shawn

I have Crawl Start Pages instead, wonder if that's the same thing.

**Brink** · 07-15-2008

Hi CGA, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I also have CrawlStartPages in the Shell folder, but I'm not sure if it is or not. I suppose it could be language translation thing.

FROM: Description of the scheduled tasks in Windows Vista

Quote: Originally Posted by CrawlStartPages

Multimedia -- This scheduled task indexes all the crawl-type start pages when the computer is idle.

Shawn

**CGA** · 07-15-2008

Thanks Brink, great forum btw. Guess i'll disable CrawlStartPages and see if i notice any difference.

**Brink** · 07-15-2008

Your welcome CGA. Let us know how it goes.

Thank you,
Shawn

11-25-2007
Brink Administrator Join Date: Apr 2007 Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 25,822 posts	Superfetch - Change Preload Data How to Change What Superfetch will Preload in Vista ... Click here to read the entire tutorial
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07-07-2008
MilesAhead Aficionado Join Date: Jan 2008 Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP1 670 posts	Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data When you say "deactivating Superfetch service" are you talking about disabling the service or using the registry tweak? In my experience simply setting the service to disabled produced a lot of HD activity after the desktop comes up whereas setting it to only cache boot files seemed to work best. Manually stopping it works too but you have to remember to do it or set up some kind of task to do it so many minutes after boot. It's weird because my machine will go for days with an empty file in ReadyBoot folder, then just last night it decided to churn for awhile and now I have a 20 MB file there. Seems a bit unpredictable.
My System Specs

07-07-2008
beauparc Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Home premium 32 88 posts	Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Hi Brink. Unfortunately your .reg file didn't work for me so I decided to do things the manual way. I don't have a controlset 001. I have 002, 003 and 005 I have changed the parameters in each of these for Boot Files only. Is this OK?
My System Specs

07-07-2008
Brink Administrator Join Date: Apr 2007 Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 25,822 posts	Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Hello Beauparc, I have updated the tutorial to have it work correctly for you this time. Try it again. The controlset ### are backups, it should have been written to CurrentControlSet instead. Shawn
My System Specs

07-08-2008
beauparc Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Home premium 32 88 posts	Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Cheers Shawn.
My System Specs

07-14-2008
MilesAhead Aficionado Join Date: Jan 2008 Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP1 670 posts	Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Hmmmmmmm it is a strange beast! I had a 0 length ReadyBoot.etl file and as soon as I deleted it, bang! A 20 MB file was written there!! It was instant! Maybe the file already existing kept it from writing? Weird!
My System Specs

07-15-2008
CGA Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Vista Ultimate x32 6 posts	Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Quote: Originally Posted by Brink MilesAhead, I do not have that hidden Walk Start Pages task. What is it a part of? Yeah, the prefetch shouldn't change much with just the boot files since they usually do not change often. LOL, you can't fix it unless you break it though. Shawn I have Crawl Start Pages instead, wonder if that's the same thing.
My System Specs

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