To Prefetch or Not To Prefetch

If you’ve been using your computer for very long you’ve probably experienced the time where you’re sitting in front of it and think, “This use to be so much quicker back in the day.” What happened? Things get clogged up and mucked up and sometimes you just need a couple of tweaks to get a bit more pep in your system’s step.

One of those tweaks you can do is to delete your prefetch files and this has been said to improve your reboot time. What the prefetch routine does is look at the applications you use and creates pointer index …read more