posted on Sunday, November 28, 2004 2:45 PM
by
demiliani
Don't play with the Windows XP Prefetcher
In these days I've seen on different forums on the net (the last is the Neowin Forum) posts about how to increase the Windows XP performances to make it faster.
The "magic tip" to make Windows XP faster is signalled on this guide on IRCSpy. In summary, according to this giude, if you want to make XP faster you've to go on the registry, Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM, Current control set > Control > Session Manager > Memory Management > Prefetch Parameters and then change the value in EnablePrefetcher from 3 to 5.
Guys, please don't do that... it's a fake. This is not a valid value and your XP will not have better performances (but maybe the opposite).
The Prefetcher service on Windows XP basically monitors the different programs that start during startup and helps them launch faster. The important key is EnablePrefetcher, and the default value for this should be set to 3. The admitted values are only 1,2,3 and 0.
1 means to prefetch boot processes only.
2 means prefetch applications only
3 means prefetch both
0 is used if you want to disable prefetching (useful only if you hae a low amoun of RAM on your system).
So, if you want that your Windows XP will remain stable, don't play with the Prefetcher... 