> I would go with the Mac Guy because the Mac Guy has also read all the > conflicting information on prefetch so he therefore systematically > tested this one. A PC that was taking over 10 minutes to start up was turned > into a peppy computer by simply clearing out this prefetch folder. > Nothing else was done to this PC. QED.
Except that the OP wasn't having a 10 minute boot problem; s/he was having a "slow" computer. Giving this advice is akin to advising someone to change the radio station in a sluggish car with bad gas. There's no real harm, but it doesn't address the issue causing the performance problem and you might get lucky with the timing of the advice. Correlation doesn't equal causation. Now, you'll have someone changing the radio station every time they perceive sluggish acceleration. Hmmm, jazz didn't help, maybe if I replace the radio.... > Most people familiar with the operation of computers know that cache > files can and do become corrupted. Corrupt caches do just the opposite > of what they were intended to do. Prefetch isn't a cache. It's a pointer system to files on the hard drive of frequently used apps. People familiar with the operation of Windows would know this. > Also the Mac Guy did not say to "periodically clean out that folder", > but to clean it out in response to a specific performance problem. Again, your advice was for a problem the OP didn't have. Prefetch *only* is used for faster application launching, not general performance. Cleaning up the hard drive and defragging it would be better advice. I recommend using JKdefrag for defragging. http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ > Also consider that if Russinovich were really as smart as you say, he > would be working for Apple. He isn't so he ain't. Using that criteria, he's obviously much smarter than I originally thought. He's only the brains behind Systernals; nothing special. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
