Anthony A Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 I have read several articles/commentaries about why you should not clean the prefecth because it actually will slow the system down. Just out of curiosity I selected to analyze the prefetch and see how much is in there and to my surprise there isn't much on my system or the other computer I recently installed CCleaner on. On this computer it comes up empty with 0 bites to be removed What is up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 they could have disabled it on their system. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...refetch-XP.html towards the very bottom it tells you about: 0: Disable 1: Application Launch Prefetch 2: Boot Prefetch 3: Prefetch everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Windows XP automatically cleans prefetch when 128 entries accumulate (it appears to delete all but the newest 64). Since CCleaner only cleans old prefetch entries, if you ran it shortly after a Windows cleanup ran, CCleaner wouldn't find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 hello there, in addition to the previous posts, there might still ba a chance that the "Windows-TaskService" (tasksys.exe) on your system had been deactivated (maybe through secondary Win-Service-Optimization or Security-Programms). Any deactivation of the "Task-Service" can result in a stall of the "Prefetcher" under WindowsXP. Oliver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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