Each time you turn on your computer, Windows keeps track of the way your computer starts and which programs you commonly open. Windows saves this information as a number of small files in the prefetch folder. The next time you turn on your ...
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A little known tweak that can help you gain some performance on your XP Professional (and Windows Server 2003) related systems is to periodically empty the prefetch folder. The prefetch folder is used to help speed up the loading of programs; ... Prefetch Basics...
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www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Gaining-Speed-Empty-Prefetch-XP.html
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Yet another Web site posted yet another “tip” today recommending that you clean out your Prefetch folder to improve performance of Windows. Arrrggghhh! I’ve written about this repeatedly (here and here and here, for instance), but the message doesn’t seem to be spreading very fast.
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www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=743
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Learn about the prefetch folder and how it helps improve performance. ... The prefetch folder is a subfolder of the Windows system folder. The prefetch folder is self-maintaining, and there's no need to delete it or empty its contents. If you empty the folder, Windows and your programs will take longer to open the next time...
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Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the Prefetch directory can get full and have obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer significantly.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_p.htm
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In the meantime, I want to defuse a long-standing controversy -- the /prefetch flag. ... Secondly, one can specify a /prefetch:# flag when launching an app. Many people have noticed that auto-generated shortcuts to Windows Media Player do this, and the number varies depending on what it does. For example,
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blogs.msdn.com/ryanmy/archive/2005/05/25/421882.aspx
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Misc | Windows XP Prefetch Clean And Control 1.2.0 ... By monitoring these files, Windows XP can prefetch them. Prefetching data is the process whereby data that is expected to be requested is read ahead into the cache. Prefetching boot files and applications decreases the time needed to start Windows XP and...
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Instruction prefetch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computer architecture, instruction prefetch is a technique used in microprocessors to speed up the execution of a program by reducing wait states. Modern microprocessors are much faster than the ...
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