Advanced Method of Optimising Performance:

If you have seen our previous posts about how to optimize the Start Up in a easier way. Now this article is for advanced user.

There is a component in Windows XP called Prefetcher. This is a part of the Memory Manager of windows which can Speed Up the booting process. At windows Start Up, a huge number of files or programs needs to be loaded into the memory. And it needs to load different parts of each file at a diffirent times. So you can see that windows will spend some time to access those files.


Now here comes the utility of Prefetcher. It watches the code and the data accessed at the time of booting and saves these activities in a folder: c:\windows\prefetch

Now we are gonna tell you how to use this component. Go to RUN and type regedit. It opens the registry editor window. Now you have to be very careful using this. Next Go to the key:>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters




Now here you'll see a value named EnablePrefetcher. Now here it can be set with 4 DWORD value. To change the value you have double click on it. Now you'll have 4 options for the value.

By changing the value to '0': You'll disable tha prefetcher. It is totally unwanted.
By changing the value to '1': You'll activate the "Application launch prefetching enabled" option. It will now only monitor your applications but not the booting. If you want slow booting but only application optimisation you can enable this.
By changing the value to '2': You'll activate the "Boot prefetching enabled" option. It will now only monitor the booting process. Doing so it will prevent the prefetcher to optimize the application's performance but it will monitor the booting process.
By changing the valure to '3': You'll activate the "Applaunch and Boot enabled" option. By the name of it you can understand what it does. It does the both thing. And it is may be the default setting on your computer. So it is the optimal option to choose from. So your computer will be optimized in not only the booting process but also with the applications.

Hope this post helped you. See ya soon bye!