Prefetch Flushing Utility

[Henry LaMuth]

One of the suggestions for speeding up opening windows applications
was to periodically flush the prefetch subdirectory...this was a PCMag
or PCWorld suggestion. Some where along the way, I found a nifty
little utility for doing this automatically. I had to rebuild my
system and lost this applet. I can't find it listed on these magazine
sites. Anyone know about it and where to find it?

Henry LaMuth

[KWoz]

> One of the suggestions for speeding up opening windows applications
> was to periodically flush the prefetch subdirectory...this was a PCMag
> or PCWorld suggestion. Some where along the way, I found a nifty
> little utility for doing this automatically. I had to rebuild my
> system and lost this applet. I can't find it listed on these magazine
> sites. Anyone know about it and where to find it?
>
> Henry LaMuth

Henry,

I have a utility called "Prefetch-Clean-And-Control.exe". I don't know where
I downloaded it from, there's no company or website on it, but you can do a
search for it.

Also, I have a batch file that has the command"del c:\windows\prefetch\*.*
/q" in it. You can try that too and stick it in your Start Up folder.

Ken

[JAX]

Try typing "prefetch" in the run box and deleting all entries.

HTH JAX

"Henry LaMuth" > wrote in message
...
> One of the suggestions for speeding up opening windows applications
> was to periodically flush the prefetch subdirectory...this was a PCMag
> or PCWorld suggestion. Some where along the way, I found a nifty
> little utility for doing this automatically. I had to rebuild my
> system and lost this applet. I can't find it listed on these magazine
> sites. Anyone know about it and where to find it?
>
> Henry LaMuth

[Wesley Vogel]

Henry;
If you clean out the Prefetch folder too often, you will defeat it's
purpose. Once a month seems to be the agreed upon time frame. My way is to
just delete the worthless *.pf's. Like Document8989.doc.PF, for example.
--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In ,
Henry LaMuth > hunted and pecked at the keyboard:
> One of the suggestions for speeding up opening windows applications
> was to periodically flush the prefetch subdirectory...this was a PCMag
> or PCWorld suggestion. Some where along the way, I found a nifty
> little utility for doing this automatically. I had to rebuild my
> system and lost this applet. I can't find it listed on these magazine
> sites. Anyone know about it and where to find it?
>
> Henry LaMuth

[Henry LaMuth]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:53:03 GMT, "KWoz" > wrote:

>> One of the suggestions for speeding up opening windows applications
>> was to periodically flush the prefetch subdirectory...this was a PCMag
>> or PCWorld suggestion. Some where along the way, I found a nifty
>> little utility for doing this automatically. I had to rebuild my
>> system and lost this applet. I can't find it listed on these magazine
>> sites. Anyone know about it and where to find it?
>>
>> Henry LaMuth
>
>Henry,
>
>I have a utility called "Prefetch-Clean-And-Control.exe". I don't know where
>I downloaded it from, there's no company or website on it, but you can do a
>search for it.
>
>Also, I have a batch file that has the command"del c:\windows\prefetch\*.*
>/q" in it. You can try that too and stick it in your Start Up folder.
>
>Ken
>


That's the one. A search turned it up and the site said it came from
the MS site somewhere!!!! The rest of the ideas are good too. I have
gotten away from putting small batch files together to do the old DOS
processes we were so use to. Have to look into that more.

Thanks for all the answers...they were all correct!!!!

Henry