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Prefetch
Name: eXpiation Date: January 27, 2002 at 03:30:07 Pacific
Comment:
I'm not at my PC right now, so this is from memory. If I remember correctly, there's a folder called Prefetch in your windows system and in it are .pre files for some of your programs (eg. explorer.pre). Is this the sort of Applog thing in Win98/ME used to keep track of most often used files for defrag or info for the XP bootup optimization thing?
Name: JordanXMills Date: January 27, 2002 at 06:10:22 Pacific
Reply:
No
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Response Number 2
Name: joeman Date: January 27, 2002 at 09:39:28 Pacific
Reply:
Windows XP speeds up the initialization of the logon session by using prefetching, and by eliminating many unnecessary network delays— http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/xpperf.asp
about the middle of the page, Im sure someone can find better info on this, I delete all contents from the folder about once a month
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