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Thanks to the guy's at the other batcave WinOScentral for the Info:

I was just answering a question in the forums about Windows prefetch and ran across a nice little VBS script which you can cut and paste into notepad, save it as a .vbs file, then save it to a directory on your computer and then run the "Task Scheduler" wizard and have this file run once a month so you don't have to worry about your prefetch cache getting to large.



This is a pretty cool little script and yes, I have tested it and it works great. I even made a small change to the script since my install of Windows XP is on my "D" drive. I just changed all references to C: to D: (there were only two) saved the file and ran it. Worked Great.

Clean Windows XP Prefetch Cache Automatically

hinkle Unregistered

#51701 Posted on: 03/05/2004 01:16 AM Forget this prefetch cache cleaning, it's worthless. In fact you will loose more performance if Windows has to generate new prefetch files than you will loose if your prefetch directory fills up with too many cache files. Useless tweak

gshapiro Unregistered

#51702 Posted on: 03/05/2004 01:54 AM I also concur that clearing the prefetch cache is pointless. What might be useful is a program that would delete those programs in the cache that do not exist on your drives anymore.

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