Solved Superfetch

[Riptorn]

Hi, can someone please tell me if it is advisable to disable superfetch??, and if so, will it improve overall performance?
Thank You
Regards
Rip

 

[Brink]

Hello Rip,

I would not advise to disable Superfetch. It is designed to help improve your computer's performance when enabled. However, you can do a test by seeing how your computer runs with it disabled and enabled just for fun. It will not hurt anything to test.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72293-superfetch-memory-prefetcher.html

and

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108833-superfetch-change-preload-data.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Riptorn]

Hello Rip,

I would not advise to disable Superfetch. It is designed to help improve your computer's performance when enabled. However, you can do a test by seeing how your computer runs with it disabled and enabled just for fun. It will not hurt anything to test.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72293-superfetch-memory-prefetcher.html

and

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108833-superfetch-change-preload-data.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Brink!

 

[Miths]

I turned it off the other day because I was fed up listening to frequent heavy disk activity (paying extra for very quiet fans in a PC doesn't do much good if the hard disk is frequently trashing around loudly instead).

http://www.vistax64.com/general-dis...-svchost-reading-large-files-whats-going.html

So far I haven't noticed any performance differences in any applications or games between having SuperFetch enabled or disabled (I'm not saying they might not be there, but if so we're probably talking split seconds on my system - or for very resource heavy tasks like games, perhaps a few seconds extra on initial launch), but I got rid of the noise .
If you don't have that problem you should probably just leave SuperFetch enabled.

 

[archie123]

Yeah leave it on , superfetch really does help your system zip along Im very anal about getting the best out of my O/S thats why im here all the time , Ive tested it on and off , on is better , If only for faster map loading ingame

 

[Riptorn]

I turned it off the other day because I was fed up listening to frequent heavy disk activity (paying extra for very quiet fans in a PC doesn't do much good if the hard disk is frequently trashing around loudly instead).

http://www.vistax64.com/general-dis...-svchost-reading-large-files-whats-going.html

So far I haven't noticed any performance differences in any applications or games between having SuperFetch enabled or disabled (I'm not saying they might not be there, but if so we're probably talking split seconds on my system - or for very resource heavy tasks like games, perhaps a few seconds extra on initial launch), but I got rid of the noise .
If you don't have that problem you should probably just leave SuperFetch enabled.

Thanks Miths.

 

[Brink]

Hello Rip,

I would not advise to disable Superfetch. It is designed to help improve your computer's performance when enabled. However, you can do a test by seeing how your computer runs with it disabled and enabled just for fun. It will not hurt anything to test.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72293-superfetch-memory-prefetcher.html

and

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108833-superfetch-change-preload-data.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Brink!

You're welcome Rip. Please let us know how it turns out for you.