Tweak Question

Greetings.........while in the process of doing this tweak:

Tweak 5- The Mystical Prefetcher
I was always amazed by this until I learned it actually existed.
Windows has a built in service called a Prefetcher which fetches
programs frequently used by the user more than others. The tweak
is though, improving its performance. Open your registry and
navigate to
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
In there you will find something called \"EnablePrefetcher\". The
default value data should be set to 3, but I recommend around
5-6.

I discovered that i have both a 'controlSet001' and a 'controlSet002' ...........my question is this as it should be in XP Pro .....and if so, why

 

Comments ?

 

While the below explanation concerns Win2000....the same also applies for XP.

ControlSet00n

 

Thanks Bubba...........and also for the link

 

You are doubly Welcome

 

The Prefetch folder is used by Windows XP to speed the boot process. Windows XP records information about each program that launches at boot and uses that information to boot faster the next time. Because multiple files might have the same name, it appends a "hash" of the file's location. That's the odd string of numbers and letters between the filename and the .pf extension.

This folder may accumulate useless junk, especially if you change your configuration a lot. There's no harm in emptying it. Simply delete all the files in that folder; Windows will rebuild it as needed.