I think that he turned off internet caching.

Found this on the Raxco site;=20
"Layout Files (Windows XP Only) - These are file which the operating =
system will defragment and optimize. On Windows XP, the operating system =
(OS) will place certain files to increase the boot speed of your system. =
These files are listed in the \\Windows\prefetch\layout.ini file. =
PerfectDisk does not optimize these files since the OS will simply move =
them every three days to where it has determined to be the optimum =
location. Any attempt to defragment these files would be a waste of =
system resources" at =
http://www.raxco.com/support/windows...oot_Defrag.htm

Same info at: =
http://www.raxco.com/support/windows...able_Popup.htm

I hope that Greg jumps in sometime with an answer for you.

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Just my 2=A2 worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
"Bill" wrote in message =
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| Lester Stiefel wrote:
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| I noticed a similar problem with the "hide this folder" and
| hide this drive" features of explorer in xppro. When PD6 is
| installed, and you do a smart defrag pass, somehow the
| program segments that deal with this are stopped or removed
| ( you can't access these), btw I do not use prefetch in any
| of the browsers as it slows these down.
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| You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching =
in
| any of the operating systems?