September 19, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and ...

Like most PC users, RAM is something I constantly obsess over. After all, it’s the single most important component that decides how smooth my PC feels during everyday use. To that end, I recently also ...

Last week, I wrote about how I disabled Windows Prefetch to free up nearly 5GB of RAM on my system. At that time, I genuinely believed I was making a smart optimization. But as several readers in the ...

So this is the question - why my prefetch files in my case located under \WINDOWS\Prefetch\ directory are not re-created after I deleted them back then (now it's more than a month or so), with all the ...

Prefetching is an excellent Windows technology which records the files loaded when an application starts, helping the system to optimise their launch times in future. Normally this all happens ...

The birth of Windows represented a reference point in the computer history. For the first time, users have been able to work with more applications at the same time, using the new improved system ...

Microsoft has always been blamed for delivering poor quality products. And most of this used to be true. This is not an apology for their products but you have to admit that lately they hit the market ...

It has been almost two years since LWN covered the swap prefetch patch. This work, done by Con Kolivas, is based on the idea that if a system is idle, and it has pushed user data out to swap, perhaps ...