Prefetch

Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 6 Posts by 4 People

Enable DNS Prefetch There have been numerous discussions before about prefetching content when to the users benefit anyway. I think it would be a good idea have DNS prefetch in Opera, like the DNS Small correction: FF 3.5 already contains DNS prefetching support without the need for add-ons

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 10 Posts by 2 People

Windows XP Service Pack 3 I have been clearing entries in the PREFETCH folder over the past weeks in the PREFETCH folder and my system boots extremely slow .  I installed Norton Internet Security 2009 ] ... value is " 3 ". I am looking at the " prefetch "folder as follows:  Start > run > %windir

Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 20 Posts by 10 People

Could someone please explain to me what this actually does? Setup PreFetch Cache?? I tried google I would just get rid of prefetch, it seems to just make things slow and take space. Basically prefetch stores some info for programs you launch to try to execute them quicker next time. I don't think

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 18 Posts by 11 People

AS the title states must we or should we disable prefetch or Superfetch etc., even in Windows 7 drives. Its part of the new drivers in Win7.Seems strange to me, I would think that the windows prefetch that the windows prefetch thing supposed to let all other disk request have priority over it? Otherwise

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 9 Posts by 5 People

Deleting prefetch undoubibly sharpens up the performance in both Vista and XP. Does any one know of any problems in doing this on a regular basis. For the uninitiated prefetch can be found at: my Quote: : Deleting prefetch undoubibly sharpens up the performance in both Vista and XP. Does any

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 3 Posts by 3 People

I would like to programatically disable hardware prefetching. From Optimizing Application Performance on Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture Using Hardware-Implemented Prefetchers and How to Choose , for a single cpu, it demonstrates disabling prefetch for the Xeon in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 3 Posts

Programs after install (including all the office apps) would not appear in the prefetch folder. The only way to fix this in both cases was to delete the prefetch folder and rebooting. -- Cheers, Guy Dear Guy Where is the Prefetch folder ? Regards Jesper "Dr Teeth" <

Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 5 Posts by 3 People

Hi all Does anybody know what the prefetch file is? Located C:\Windows\Prefetch. I have a feeling Quote: : Kat Hi all Does anybody know what the prefetch file is? Located C:\Windows\Prefetch the DLL's for programs that it prioritises for quick access? For instance adding /Prefetch:1

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 9 Posts by 3 People

Is a prefetch? every time i look at it it's full of stuff. what is it used for? ...c42621033.mspxthank you sir. that was a great read. and very helpful.The prefetch files are there to help i have games on here that do alot of harddrive hogging of there own. now i do clean my prefetch out

Tuesday, May 05, 2009 - 7 Posts by 4 People

What contents are inside your C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch folder without it causing any harm to your system On occasions I have cleared out all the data from my Prefetch folder , currently my Prefetch folder a backwards step IMHO. Oh yeah and dont delete the prefetch folder just the contents.Quote: Read