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A tool I use, CCleaner, has an option to clean out old prefetch entries.
I would presume that CCleaner checks the date stamp to weed out old
entries and double-checks to insure that the executable that it links
back to is still present before CCleaner tosses it. I have not
experienced any slowdown of my own system, and I have used CCleaner
starting with Windows 2000 on up through Windows 7. When you purge the
whole prefetch folder, you will get a slowdown as Windows rebuilds the
prefetch content on the next boot cycle, but the next boot cycle after
the rebuild will be back up to speed. Cleaning out the files inside of
%TEMP% (a system variable for the temp folder) is much more productive
in terms of speeding up Windows, provided you defragment afterward to
tidy up the file system.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] removing files out of Prefetch
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, August 19, 2010 11:12 pm
To: [log in to unmask]
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/
-------- Original Message --------
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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