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| 06-12-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Shawn are you sure the key is EnableSuperfetch or EnablePrefetcher? I tried the download .reg file to set it to only do boot files and \windows\prefetch kept showing applications as I ran them. However I found another article and when I followed it and set EnablePrefetcher to '2' it seemed to work as expected. What I was doing was setting Superfetch service to Automatic but stopping it 10 or 15 minutes after booting so it could cache the bootup without running in the background all the time. So far this boot only caching seems to have quieted it down. It would be nice if I didn't have to remember to shut the thing off manually. ![]() |
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| 06-13-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Thank you MilesAhead for catching this. This link from MSDN confirms what you suspected. Disabling Prefetch The tutorial has been updated for this correct setting now. Thank you again, Shawn |
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| 06-13-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Thank you MilesAhead for catching this. This link from MSDN confirms what you suspected. Disabling Prefetch The tutorial has been updated for this correct setting now. Thank you again, Shawn |
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| 06-13-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data I shutdown each night and when not in use. Is prefetching taking extra cycles and disk activity away from my applications with no real benefit of prefetching? |
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| 06-13-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Hi Michael, No Superfetch only works while your computer is running. You can read more about it here. It usually will help improve the performance for a computer unless it is a server. Superfetch (Memory Prefetcher) Shawn |
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| 07-01-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Hi! I just have a quick quesiton. What are boot files?? |
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| 07-01-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Hi Stanley, Welcome to Vista Forums. The boot files are what Vista loads during startup. This is usually device drivers and the startup programs (Ex: Firewall, Antivirus, etc...). The Program files option are the ones you run after Vista has started to the desktop. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 07-01-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data Thank you very much! I have one more quesiton: so do files for services count as boot files? |
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| 07-01-2008 | |
| | Re: Superfetch - Change Preload Data If a particular service is loaded during startup, then yes. Superfetch usually does a great job on improving performance with both options set to be enabled though. Shawn |
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