Speed Up Your Windows XP Boot Time… Real Quick Like
Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on June 14, 2007 – 4:07 pm -
Hey out there in computer land… Do you want to speed up your boot times of Windows XP or Wndows Server 2003?
Of course you do. It’s actually really, really easy! Windows has decided for you that it will load the majority of your executables at boot into your system memory so applications will appear to start faster. But as we all know having all these processes running slows down your system and eats your memory faster than Pac-Man going after his pellets.
Navigate to %systemroot%\prefetch or for the newbie c:\windows\prefetch and delete everything in there. If you want to be on the safe side you can rename the prefetch folder something like prefetch_old.
Now give your machine a reboot and marvel at the time you have shaved off your boot time.
I actually wrote this for my first post over at www.techPersona.com. Check it out!
Edit - The post is here in all its InterWeb Glory!
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By Andrew K on Jul 7, 2007 | Reply
Cleaning the Prefetch folder is a Myth and will REDUCE performance. Unused prefetch files do nothing but take up a small amount of disk space and are automatically cleaned at 128 entries down to the 32 most used app’s prefetch files by Windows. Cleaning the folder manually will cripple all applications and windows load times.
XP Myths
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jul 7, 2007 | Reply
Color me shocked Thanks Andrew. I have been doing this for several years as well as many other admins I have met.
I will look into this a bit further and re-post when im done.
Thanks for the comment!