sockers Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Hello: How do you tell when you did your last clean-up? Also, a microsoft article suggest disabling unchecking the prefetch folder as deleting the contents can slow down performance. The link to the articles is: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html You will have to scroll down a bit to to find the CCleaner reference. Appreciate a response to the above questions. Thanks, Sockers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 ... a microsoft article suggest disabling unchecking the prefetch folder as deleting the contents can slow down performance ...See http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=3343 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sockers Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hello: How do you tell when you did your last clean-up? Also, a microsoft article suggest disabling unchecking the prefetch folder as deleting the contents can slow down performance. The link to the articles is: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html You will have to scroll down a bit to to find the CCleaner reference. Appreciate a response to the above questions. Thanks, Sockers 25945[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sockers Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 26006[/snapback] Hi: Still would like to know how to tell when the last clean-up was done? Thanks, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishmen Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I don't think there is a way. Oh actually if when you clean you also do a registry clean via issues and make a backup, look at the date and time the back was created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenknight Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I run CCleaner at the end of every session on the computer. It doesn't take long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hello: How do you tell when you did your last clean-up? Also, a microsoft article suggest disabling unchecking the prefetch folder as deleting the contents can slow down performance. The link to the articles is: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html You will have to scroll down a bit to to find the CCleaner reference. Appreciate a response to the above questions. Thanks, Sockers 25945[/snapback] Don't be fooled by that website. It contains a lot of false propaganda and the kid who made it is no Microsoft employee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burtman Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Don't be fooled by that website. It contains a lot of false propaganda and the kid who made it is no Microsoft employee. This isn't my quote, but as for Prefetch ... "Prefetch, introduced in Windows XP, stores specific data about the apps. you run in order to help them start faster. Prefetch is an algorithm that helps anticipate cache misses, and stores data on the hard-disk for easy retrieval. The data is located in \Windows\Prefetch, and periodically clearing out the data in this folder (eg. once a month) will improve performance. As new apps are subsequently started, new prefetch data will be created, which may mean slightly reduced performance at first. But with old entries gone, Windows should be able to locate the data it actually needs more quickly. ...deleting Prefetch may increase bootime slightly, but only the next time you boot." I agree, not only to I delete from CC, but once(-ish) a month, I delete the complete contents of the Prefetch folder without any probs. Mr B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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