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March 19th, 2006, 03:35 AM

craigtb88

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What are prefetches

I was looking at an article in a magazine and it was on how to speed up you boot time. It said one way was to delete everyting in your C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch folder. What kinda files are these and are they necessary?

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March 19th, 2006, 06:28 AM

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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/prefetch.htm
Also see various views on deleting the prefetch files
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-5796430.html

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