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Just spotted this bit of Info at Futuremark's Forum posted by jfitzw!

I dont know about any file that will change it other than bootvis, which never worked for me. one guarunteed way to get faster boots, is to change the prefetch options. do this

start > run > type regedit > navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > Current control set > Control > Session Manager > Memory Management > Prefetch Parameters. change the value in EnablePrefetcher from 3 to 5. reboot and watch the faster speed.

Noodlez Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: 2003-06-13

#48195 Posted on: 10/09/2003 05:46 PM you you could turn prefetch all the way off and them zoon zoom zoom

MagamiAKO Unregistered

#48196 Posted on: 10/09/2003 05:49 PM Holy shit. What the hell does this function do? Windows XP just booted in like 2 seconds flat for me!

K6-III Unregistered

#48199 Posted on: 10/09/2003 06:20 PM Yup, helps very much!

Juomaru Senior Member Posts: 115 Joined: 2002-03-29

#48210 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:27 PM This tweak and the cpu l2 cache tweak are nothing new. If you have read the various WinXP tweak guide, you would get more info. including any side-effects and stuff.

curiophile Unregistered

#48212 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:44 PM Setting the prefetch to 5, I believe will enable prefetching for application launch, but will disable boot prefetching. If so, that is a bad choice. First of all, prefetching applications isn't needed for most 7200 RPM hard drives. If you disable the prefetching for boot, then all you are doing is getting through the WindowsXP scroll bar quickly, but then your kernel and start applications will take twice as long to boot once the GUI is loaded. In otherwords, you will be able to boot past the welcome screen quicker, but the kernel and apps will take much longer to load. That's not a good trade off to me. I'd rather have my screen take a few seconds longer at the welcome screen, and then have the kernel and GUI load quicker. I guess it is a matter of preference.

WF_Chaos Unregistered

#48213 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:47 PM well what side affect could this have? what kind of problems could this bring up on my comp by doing this "tweak"?

TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#48214 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:55 PM The L2 cache "tweak" is a placebo. This is determined via the HAL, although with older CPUs with off-die L2 Cache this may not be the case. Basically its for Pre-Pentium 2 CPUs. For what I'd hope would be everyone here this is a completely useless "tweak" to make, there's absolytely no point to it.

TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#48215 Posted on: 10/09/2003 07:57 PM 0 means Windows auto-determines it. So what the guy's saying on the forum about Windows 2000 & XP not detecting it is just wrong.

RanCorX2 Junior Member Posts: 5 Joined: 2004-07-02

#48216 Posted on: 10/09/2003 08:12 PM i got mine set to 9, but i cant remember why...

Melll Unregistered

#48219 Posted on: 10/09/2003 09:24 PM Im gonna reboot and if i dont post back in the next 2 min u can bet it fucked up my pc. ok im gonna do it now!!! BRB!

Melll Unregistered

#48231 Posted on: 10/09/2003 11:50 PM DAMM I got burned somehow, it must have been cuz im using a BETA TEST VERSION!!! EEERRR had to format the whole thing and use a real version now, thanks u W2S!!!

garyrh Unregistered

#48248 Posted on: 10/10/2003 10:34 AM Made mine boot slower. It did not load all the startup items either until I set it back to 3.

TheRealMegabyte Unregistered

#48289 Posted on: 10/11/2003 09:48 AM 9 also has the same effect as 1 or 5. In binary all these numbers end with 01 which means disabling boot pefetching.

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