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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:25:17 -0400, Bill wrote:
mrtee wrote: You are correct, prefetch is supposed to clean (purge) itself every 3 days, at least in everything I have read, and that is what it does on my system. Right, and if I don't install PerfectDisk it does exactly that - clean up the folder every three days. I ran without any third party defrag utilities for about a year and no problems, until I tried PerfectDisk v6. On another note, I find it slightly disturbing that several people here have denied that XP is supposed to manage the prefetch folder. Makes me wonder what other misinformation they're passing along to newbies who don't know any better. By any chance do you have GoBack installed? Nope, I use System Restore if necessary. In fact, very few programs are installed right now because of this issue. I have about a dozen other apps that I want to install, but I'm waiting until I resolve this issue or dump PD. :-/ 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. -- Lester Stiefel Proverbs 1:7-9 Be careful to pay attention to valid teachings |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:25:17 -0400, Bill wrote:
mrtee wrote: You are correct, prefetch is supposed to clean (purge) itself every 3 days, at least in everything I have read, and that is what it does on my system. Right, and if I don't install PerfectDisk it does exactly that - clean up the folder every three days. I ran without any third party defrag utilities for about a year and no problems, until I tried PerfectDisk v6. On another note, I find it slightly disturbing that several people here have denied that XP is supposed to manage the prefetch folder. Makes me wonder what other misinformation they're passing along to newbies who don't know any better. By any chance do you have GoBack installed? Nope, I use System Restore if necessary. In fact, very few programs are installed right now because of this issue. I have about a dozen other apps that I want to install, but I'm waiting until I resolve this issue or dump PD. :-/ 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. -- Lester Stiefel Proverbs 1:7-9 Be careful to pay attention to valid teachings |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Lester Stiefel wrote:
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. You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching in any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Lester Stiefel wrote:
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. You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching in any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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. --=20 Just my 2=A2 worth Jeff __________in response to__________ "Bill" wrote in message = ... | Lester Stiefel wrote: |=20 | 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. |=20 | You lost me there at the end. Did you mean you don't use prefetching = in | any of the operating systems? |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
R. McCarty wrote:
I missed the original post, so I'm speculating here. No problem, I'll repeat info as needed. Perfect Disk doesn't factor into the Prefetch operations, it only uses the Layout.Ini file to do the file placement. That's what it's supposed to do, but it's doing something to prefetch on my computer as it's been almost two weeks now and I have dozens of obsolete PF files in the prefetch folder which are up to two weeks old. The .pf files are occasionally purged by Windows XP. Yes, XP takes care of the folder just fine and has done so for the last two years when I just used MS Defrag. However, as soon as PerfectDisk was installed XP stopped cleaning up the folder. To give you some background, I first installed PerfectDisk v6 almost a month ago to try it out. It seemed to work great, defragging very well, offline defrags put the MFT and Pagefile in good spots, etc. But a week after installing it, I glanced at the prefetch folder and noticed that old files were in there dating back to the day I installed PerfectDisk. Some PF that pointed to PD setup and dozens of instances of Rundll32 files. That's when I realized something was wrong with prefetching. So I checked all the settings in PD and then went looking for info on prefetching. I read everything I could find on the net, including Raxco's website. I thought maybe it was a fluke, so I did a second clean install of XP, updates, and then installed PD and some usual programs like Agent, Eudora, etc. After a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder and I'm forced to clean up the folder myself. So I tried another clean install of XP, updates, and install PD and some programs. Used different PD setting this time, having PD manage all of the Layout.ini files instead of the default. Once again after a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder. Now I did read a thread about PD not disabling prefetch: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...isk%2Bprefetch "PerfectDisk doesn't disable prefetch. What PD does is to disable the partial defrag that WinXP is performing approximately every three days to attempt to make sure that the files in the prefetch folder are contiguous." And that seems to be what is happening on my system. However, if PD stops the 3 day partial defrag, and XP's prefetch just keeps building more and more PF files, then there is an obvious issue here with the prefetch folder growing out of control. Perhaps if PD would clear the Prefetch folder and change the prefetching to "boot files" ONLY in the Registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters) to Enableprefetcher=2 then it would stop building PF files and just keep the Layout and NTOSBOOT-BOODFAAD files, then it would do its job. But while this keeps the prefetch folder nice and tidy, it effectively reduces performance because prefetching of applications is no longer in effect. Boot times will be the same, but opening programs will be slightly slower. So I tried using the setting to let Windows manage the files, which changes the Registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\OptimalLayout) back to OptimalLayout=1, however that still does not let XP clean up the folder, partial defrag does not start to work without reinstalling Windows again. Stand alone computer - let perfect disk manage all files This is the odd part. I have PerfectDisk in the same config as this user, yet his computer seems to manage the prefetch folder just fine whereas mine just keeps adding more and more PF files without cleaning up the older entries. I've tried uninstalling PerfectDisk, but whatever changes it makes, are not undone by removing PD. Only a clean install of Windows seems to fix it. I posted this in hopes that Greg Hayes of Raxco Software would see it, but apparently he hasn't posted here in about a month, nor in any other group in over two weeks according to Google. Perhaps he's on holidays... |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
R. McCarty wrote:
I missed the original post, so I'm speculating here. No problem, I'll repeat info as needed. Perfect Disk doesn't factor into the Prefetch operations, it only uses the Layout.Ini file to do the file placement. That's what it's supposed to do, but it's doing something to prefetch on my computer as it's been almost two weeks now and I have dozens of obsolete PF files in the prefetch folder which are up to two weeks old. The .pf files are occasionally purged by Windows XP. Yes, XP takes care of the folder just fine and has done so for the last two years when I just used MS Defrag. However, as soon as PerfectDisk was installed XP stopped cleaning up the folder. To give you some background, I first installed PerfectDisk v6 almost a month ago to try it out. It seemed to work great, defragging very well, offline defrags put the MFT and Pagefile in good spots, etc. But a week after installing it, I glanced at the prefetch folder and noticed that old files were in there dating back to the day I installed PerfectDisk. Some PF that pointed to PD setup and dozens of instances of Rundll32 files. That's when I realized something was wrong with prefetching. So I checked all the settings in PD and then went looking for info on prefetching. I read everything I could find on the net, including Raxco's website. I thought maybe it was a fluke, so I did a second clean install of XP, updates, and then installed PD and some usual programs like Agent, Eudora, etc. After a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder and I'm forced to clean up the folder myself. So I tried another clean install of XP, updates, and install PD and some programs. Used different PD setting this time, having PD manage all of the Layout.ini files instead of the default. Once again after a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder. Now I did read a thread about PD not disabling prefetch: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...isk%2Bprefetch "PerfectDisk doesn't disable prefetch. What PD does is to disable the partial defrag that WinXP is performing approximately every three days to attempt to make sure that the files in the prefetch folder are contiguous." And that seems to be what is happening on my system. However, if PD stops the 3 day partial defrag, and XP's prefetch just keeps building more and more PF files, then there is an obvious issue here with the prefetch folder growing out of control. Perhaps if PD would clear the Prefetch folder and change the prefetching to "boot files" ONLY in the Registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters) to Enableprefetcher=2 then it would stop building PF files and just keep the Layout and NTOSBOOT-BOODFAAD files, then it would do its job. But while this keeps the prefetch folder nice and tidy, it effectively reduces performance because prefetching of applications is no longer in effect. Boot times will be the same, but opening programs will be slightly slower. So I tried using the setting to let Windows manage the files, which changes the Registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\OptimalLayout) back to OptimalLayout=1, however that still does not let XP clean up the folder, partial defrag does not start to work without reinstalling Windows again. Stand alone computer - let perfect disk manage all files This is the odd part. I have PerfectDisk in the same config as this user, yet his computer seems to manage the prefetch folder just fine whereas mine just keeps adding more and more PF files without cleaning up the older entries. I've tried uninstalling PerfectDisk, but whatever changes it makes, are not undone by removing PD. Only a clean install of Windows seems to fix it. I posted this in hopes that Greg Hayes of Raxco Software would see it, but apparently he hasn't posted here in about a month, nor in any other group in over two weeks according to Google. Perhaps he's on holidays... |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
R. McCarty wrote:
I missed the original post, so I'm speculating here. No problem, I'll repeat info as needed. Perfect Disk doesn't factor into the Prefetch operations, it only uses the Layout.Ini file to do the file placement. That's what it's supposed to do, but it's doing something to prefetch on my computer as it's been almost two weeks now and I have dozens of obsolete PF files in the prefetch folder which are up to two weeks old. The .pf files are occasionally purged by Windows XP. Yes, XP takes care of the folder just fine and has done so for the last two years when I just used MS Defrag. However, as soon as PerfectDisk was installed XP stopped cleaning up the folder. To give you some background, I first installed PerfectDisk v6 almost a month ago to try it out. It seemed to work great, defragging very well, offline defrags put the MFT and Pagefile in good spots, etc. But a week after installing it, I glanced at the prefetch folder and noticed that old files were in there dating back to the day I installed PerfectDisk. Some PF that pointed to PD setup and dozens of instances of Rundll32 files. That's when I realized something was wrong with prefetching. So I checked all the settings in PD and then went looking for info on prefetching. I read everything I could find on the net, including Raxco's website. I thought maybe it was a fluke, so I did a second clean install of XP, updates, and then installed PD and some usual programs like Agent, Eudora, etc. After a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder and I'm forced to clean up the folder myself. So I tried another clean install of XP, updates, and install PD and some programs. Used different PD setting this time, having PD manage all of the Layout.ini files instead of the default. Once again after a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder. Now I did read a thread about PD not disabling prefetch: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...isk%2Bprefetch "PerfectDisk doesn't disable prefetch. What PD does is to disable the partial defrag that WinXP is performing approximately every three days to attempt to make sure that the files in the prefetch folder are contiguous." And that seems to be what is happening on my system. However, if PD stops the 3 day partial defrag, and XP's prefetch just keeps building more and more PF files, then there is an obvious issue here with the prefetch folder growing out of control. Perhaps if PD would clear the Prefetch folder and change the prefetching to "boot files" ONLY in the Registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters) to Enableprefetcher=2 then it would stop building PF files and just keep the Layout and NTOSBOOT-BOODFAAD files, then it would do its job. But while this keeps the prefetch folder nice and tidy, it effectively reduces performance because prefetching of applications is no longer in effect. Boot times will be the same, but opening programs will be slightly slower. So I tried using the setting to let Windows manage the files, which changes the Registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\OptimalLayout) back to OptimalLayout=1, however that still does not let XP clean up the folder, partial defrag does not start to work without reinstalling Windows again. Stand alone computer - let perfect disk manage all files This is the odd part. I have PerfectDisk in the same config as this user, yet his computer seems to manage the prefetch folder just fine whereas mine just keeps adding more and more PF files without cleaning up the older entries. I've tried uninstalling PerfectDisk, but whatever changes it makes, are not undone by removing PD. Only a clean install of Windows seems to fix it. I posted this in hopes that Greg Hayes of Raxco Software would see it, but apparently he hasn't posted here in about a month, nor in any other group in over two weeks according to Google. Perhaps he's on holidays... |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
R. McCarty wrote:
I missed the original post, so I'm speculating here. No problem, I'll repeat info as needed. Perfect Disk doesn't factor into the Prefetch operations, it only uses the Layout.Ini file to do the file placement. That's what it's supposed to do, but it's doing something to prefetch on my computer as it's been almost two weeks now and I have dozens of obsolete PF files in the prefetch folder which are up to two weeks old. The .pf files are occasionally purged by Windows XP. Yes, XP takes care of the folder just fine and has done so for the last two years when I just used MS Defrag. However, as soon as PerfectDisk was installed XP stopped cleaning up the folder. To give you some background, I first installed PerfectDisk v6 almost a month ago to try it out. It seemed to work great, defragging very well, offline defrags put the MFT and Pagefile in good spots, etc. But a week after installing it, I glanced at the prefetch folder and noticed that old files were in there dating back to the day I installed PerfectDisk. Some PF that pointed to PD setup and dozens of instances of Rundll32 files. That's when I realized something was wrong with prefetching. So I checked all the settings in PD and then went looking for info on prefetching. I read everything I could find on the net, including Raxco's website. I thought maybe it was a fluke, so I did a second clean install of XP, updates, and then installed PD and some usual programs like Agent, Eudora, etc. After a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder and I'm forced to clean up the folder myself. So I tried another clean install of XP, updates, and install PD and some programs. Used different PD setting this time, having PD manage all of the Layout.ini files instead of the default. Once again after a week, same thing - XP stops managing the prefetch folder. Now I did read a thread about PD not disabling prefetch: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...isk%2Bprefetch "PerfectDisk doesn't disable prefetch. What PD does is to disable the partial defrag that WinXP is performing approximately every three days to attempt to make sure that the files in the prefetch folder are contiguous." And that seems to be what is happening on my system. However, if PD stops the 3 day partial defrag, and XP's prefetch just keeps building more and more PF files, then there is an obvious issue here with the prefetch folder growing out of control. Perhaps if PD would clear the Prefetch folder and change the prefetching to "boot files" ONLY in the Registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters) to Enableprefetcher=2 then it would stop building PF files and just keep the Layout and NTOSBOOT-BOODFAAD files, then it would do its job. But while this keeps the prefetch folder nice and tidy, it effectively reduces performance because prefetching of applications is no longer in effect. Boot times will be the same, but opening programs will be slightly slower. So I tried using the setting to let Windows manage the files, which changes the Registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\OptimalLayout) back to OptimalLayout=1, however that still does not let XP clean up the folder, partial defrag does not start to work without reinstalling Windows again. Stand alone computer - let perfect disk manage all files This is the odd part. I have PerfectDisk in the same config as this user, yet his computer seems to manage the prefetch folder just fine whereas mine just keeps adding more and more PF files without cleaning up the older entries. I've tried uninstalling PerfectDisk, but whatever changes it makes, are not undone by removing PD. Only a clean install of Windows seems to fix it. I posted this in hopes that Greg Hayes of Raxco Software would see it, but apparently he hasn't posted here in about a month, nor in any other group in over two weeks according to Google. Perhaps he's on holidays... |
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