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Hey dude, you need also a resident antispyware, gosh, add a couple of seconds to be ready ĥ. Someone say to you that the Microsoft firewall is a joke, you install a new one, i.e., a bit more time to load Ĥ. You realize you need an antivirus, yup, it gets a bit slower ģ. First rime your Windows is pristine, not too much to load Ģ. It mentions stupid things that everybody knows, like the defragmenter, but it forgets to mention many other sources of huge delays: Bad drivers that introduce delays, additional software that introduces software that makes the boot slower (nero and other CD recording software installs kernel-side “filters” in your DVD drive, for example), all the programs that are run automatically when added to HKLMsoftwaremicrosoftwindowsRun or the programs->startup folder, etc etc.ġ. I don’t know how people manages to invent all those “optimizing tricks” that are based in non-scientifical facts and that only harm your computer.

Do it, it’ll just make your computer slower, what a good advice. It’s fun to see that they “recomend” you to DISABLE it and prefetch only the boot info. Proof: Look at it, you’ll find things on it that weren’t there when you installed.Ĭonclusion: all those files are UPDATED regularly, and the individual files get used IFF you start the app.

The Layout.ini file also gets updated regularly. Actually, I think that windows deletes all those individual files ever x days, but I’m not sure, sadly Microsoft documentation in things like this is very poor. Your computer won’t speed up by deleting them, as many “optimizing tricks” love to tell. AFAIK they get updated regularly so they’re probably uptodate in all windows systems (I also suspect that those are the files that the defragmenter looks when it tries to move the blocks in a optimized manner). Sometimes you’ll a lot of those individual files in the prefetech directory, but the fact is that those are used for the per-app prefetching so they won’t be touched if you don’t start the app. The “app prefetch” prefetchs every individual app when you start it and stores the data in individual windowsprefetch-.pf. The “boot prefetch” prefetchs the data used when booting the system and stores the data in windowsprefetchlayount.ini.

There’s two kinds of “prefetchs” that happen on windows system: a boot prefetch and a per-app prefetch. Windows takes forever to boot because it is prefetching a 1.0 copy of Napster, and you just want to check your email before you have to go to workĭuh, the windows prefetcher is not *that* stupid. The problem is most people have been running windows for years, and the prefetch gets clogged with stuff that you almost never use.