Howto Make your programs start faster in Windows Xp

HowTo, Tech Blogs, Technology, Blogging, Geeks, Windows December 12th, 2006

This tip is for advanced users.

Apparently some tips and tricks on how to make your programs start faster in Windows Xp are not always accurate.

If you have a better tip,please let us know.

Let’s see if we can make our installed programs start faster with this tweak.

Go to Run,type Regedit and go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

When you’ve reached that key ,look on the right side for EnablePrefetcher. Right click on it and choose Modify. Now change from 3 to 5 and close the editor.

Start up your PC.

If you’ve tried this tweak ,please let us know if it worked for you.

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2 Comments to “Howto Make your programs start faster in Windows Xp”

Mike at Carputers | January 22nd, 2007 at 4:26 pm

This tweak is counter-productive, according to:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html
carol | January 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm

Yeah, Andrew proved to be right about many tweaks.

He probably is right.