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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
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Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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Perfectdisk Stops Prefetch - Greg Hayes?
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain:174703 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1074021
"If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. " Configuring PD to manage or NOT manage the layout files has no impact on whether Windows still continues to "manage" the contents of the prefetch folder or what is contained in layout.ini. Windows will still add/remove files to this folder and update layout.ini as Windows deems appropriate. If PD is configured to manage the boot files or all of the layout files, all that is happening is that PD is telling Windows (via registry key) to NOT perform the partial defrag approx every 3 days. Other than that, pd is either reading or not reading the contents of layout.ini and taking action on those files based on how PD is configured - either placing or marking them as unmovable and leaving them where they currently reside on the partition. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department. Want to email me? Delete ntloader. "Al Dykes" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Urban wrote: I have been using PerfectDisk for about a year now. My prefetch folder is maintained as it should be. I know this is not much help, but.......... -- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) "Bill" wrote in message news Ok, this is an annoying problem. I've been trying for three weeks to get Perfectdisk v6 to work with XP's prefetching. I've reinstalled Windows XP three times now, and every single time, XP stops cleaning up the prefetch folder. Perfectdisk seems to work fine doing its thing, and XP works fine, aside from this issue. But no matter what settings I try, they will not work together to let Windows manage the prefetch files, regardless of the PD setting. XP just stops cleaning up the prefetch folder like it should every three days. Instead what happens is obsolete files do not get removed, and the folder just continues to grow in size. This happens from the moment I install PD. I've Googled for info, and I've checked the Registry settings to confirm that they are correct, but it still doesn't work. I noticed that PD does change the registry back and forth if I change the settings in PD. If I set PD to manage the files, they get moved by PD as expected. But then prefetch does not maintain the folder. If I set PD to let Windows manage the files, then it skips the prefetch files, but still the folder does not maintain itself. Note that I have not changed any of the services and the Task Scheduler is working fine. I currently have PD installed...I re-installed XP last Monday and XP still has NOT cleaned up the prefetch folder. I have dozens of PF files that are obsolete, dated all the way back to when I installed SP1 on Monday evening at 17:50 hours. Normally XP would have cleaned up the folder at least twice now. I've read numerous posts from a Raxco rep named Greg Hayes, and I hope he reads this, but unfortunately his suggestions do not work. I can't imagine I've missed a setting, not three times in a row. I'd really like to get it to work as I like what PD does with the pagefile, MFT, etc. And it's faster than the XP defrag'er and is easily scheduled. But unless the prefetch folder is maintained as it is when I don't install PD, it's not much use to me. Thanks for any help provided. I assume you're talking about \WINDOWS\prefetch. FWIW I never bothered to look at the cache before. I just looked and it's 3.5MB. Since then it's been a month since I defraged.) I've used PD on my XP system for over a year, with the defaults. I do standalone defrag after major software install/reinstall and a normal one when I've moved a lot of big files around. This machine is a not-too-speedy midrange laptop that can use all the help it can get for disk speed. I run really fat software like OpenOffice. I run _lots_ of different programs on most days. BTW; I set swap space to a fixed size (Min=Max in control panel, based on what I know about the applications I run) and then do a standalone defrag to get it into one segment. That never has to be done again. IMHO If a disk has lots of free space then anal defraging becomes less important to a decent achine and average applications. I'm not sure that actuall buys me anything in practical terms. I open lots of applications and leave them open, for days. The cache should only help when starting a program for the first time. -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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