Hmm. that's not what I remember hearing from fred langa. I'll have to ask him and maybe he will bring that up in ine of the news letters. ----- Original Message ----- From: Annette Carr To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:37 PM Subject: RE: [jaws-users] Clearing the Prefetch?
The following was taken from: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=178204&start =0 Do not clean out your Prefetch folder! http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000743.html Here is an excerpt from Ryan Myers, a developer on Microsoft's Windows Client Performance Team: XP systems have a Prefetch directory underneath the windows root directory, full of .pf files -- these are lists of pages to load. The file names are generated from hashing the EXE to load -- whenever you load the EXE, we hash, see if there's a matching (exename)-(hash).pf file in the prefetch directory, and if so we load those pages. (If it doesn't exist, we track what pages it loads, create that file, and pick a handful of them to save to it.) So, first off, it is a bad idea to periodically clean out that folder as some tech sites suggest. For one thing, XP will just re-create that data anyways; secondly, it trims the files anyways if there's ever more than 128 of them so that it doesn't needlessly consume space. So not only is deleting the directory totally unnecessary, but you're also putting a temporary dent in your PC's performance. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of one foxy lady Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jaws-users] Clearing the Prefetch? so I have to use that program? Can't I just go to it and delete the stuff in there? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] Clearing the Prefetch? > Yes it is and a good program to do that with is CCleaner. > http://www.ccleaner.com/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: one foxy lady > To: jaws-users > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:10 PM > Subject: [jaws-users] Clearing the Prefetch? > > > Was wondering if it's ok to empty the windows prefetch folder? > > Hailley > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users > List send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
