Saturday, January 26, 2008

6. Memory Tweak

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) and locate the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParameters

2.On the EnablePrefetcher value, change the setting from 3 to 5 (decimal).

3. Close the registry editor and restart your computer.

1 Comment:

Anonymous said...

BAD IDEA

Microsoft documents 4 values for EnablePrefetcher, 0,1,2,3. The default and optimum value is 3. Any other value will impair either boot or application launch times or both.

This is a well known myth, yet it continues to be found on uninformed web sites.

References:
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA