It was a bad idea then, and it's a bad idea now:
Windows Prefetch Optimisation Myth Busted
http://www.pallab.net/2010/01/14/windows-prefetch-optimisation-myth-busted/
One more time: do not clean out your Prefetch folder!
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2005/06/one-more-time-do-not-clean-out-your-prefetch-folder/
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Subject: [PCBUILD] removing files out of Prefetch
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, August 19, 2010 1:35 am
To: [log in to unmask]
I have a Dell 540 and using Win 7,
8.00 GB Memory,
64 Bit Operating System,
When I was running XP on my older puter, I could go in the Prefetch
folder
and delete all those files in there to keep the puter from running so
slow. I just looked to see if that Prefetch folder is filled up after
running
Window Washer and the McAfee cleaner, and there were umpteen things in
that
Prefetch folder. Why is that and is it safe to remove all that's in
there.
Harriet
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