On May 29, 4:34Â am, Ariel wrote:
> "bobster" wrote:
> > When XP SP3 is loading, how many passes of the blue progress bar is typical
> > before the "Welcome" screen appears? Â Mine use to take about 4-5 passes but
> > now takes about 11-12.
>
> > I have only 3 things on my msconfig start list, use MS Essentials
> > virus/spyware and regularly run malwarebytes. Â How can I reduce the number
> > of passes of the blue progress bar?
>
> > .
>
> Try this:
> Â Â Â Go to C:\windows\prefetch folder
> Â Â Â del all the contents inside the prefetch folder, then restart.See if
> that reduces the number of passes.
>
> Â Â Â or open command prompt and execute this..
> Â Â Â C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch>del *.* /q
Try it?
You don't know if it will have any effect of not?
Did you try it on your system and what was the result of the number of
your blue progress bar passes and your XP boot timing measurements?
Here is a discussion of how the XP Prefetch feature works. There is
nothing to try, no might be, no maybe, no could be.
Mark Russinovitch and David Solomon, wrote an excellent article called
Windows XP Kernel Improvements Create a More Robust, Powerful, and
Scalable OS in the December 2001 issue of MSDN Magazine. Their
technical credentials are impeccable, and they speak very highly of
effectiveness of this feature and describe how it works - and why you
should leave it alone.
It doesn't matter how you think it works or how manipulating the
folder may or might help your system. It is not important how you
think it works. What is important is how it really works. Read the
article and you will know how it works and why you should just leave
it alone.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc302206.aspx
Read the article and the section on prefetch yourself and do some
testing and please report your results.
