Longhorn's most useful feature "leaked "as XP tweak

[Antdgar]

After I set this tweak i kept getting crashes. I dont think it does anything.

 

[Triadcool]

Wow! Works like a charm.


Thanks.

 

[jasperfish]

Well, seems faster which is odd as the boot isn't being prefetched!

 

[givid]

from what I've read it's a fake. what happens is that it just disables the prefetch. superfetch doesn't exist in windows xp

 

[alexkof]

this is great! nice find!

 

[naugas]

I have found very little serious discussions of this tweak so far. I've only seen one actual benchmark test, and the differences were very small, although performance did increase a tiny bit. I think it's very strange that it isn't discussed and tested more? Are there people better at searching here that can provide links to benchmarks and serious tests?

 

[IntoTheWow]

I tried it and my windows loaded pretty faster than usual :0

why didnt they apply this feature as default :s needs more cpu?

 

[Ping_Pong]

Really guys, if you think you saw a speed increase using "SuperFetch" in XP, go ahead and download Longhorn (Vista) and see how different it is.

For instance, in XP with "SuperFetch", Firefox takes about 7 seconds to load up on a cold boot (same as without the key). In vista, where the feature actually exists, Firefox loads in less than a second on a cold boot. Thats amazing, and you wont find that kind of speed in XP...

 

[kazaalite]

Teh 'superfetch' tweak is discussed here:
http://tinyurl.com/c6xhf

:google: turned up a few more 'superfetch' discussions & apparently it does nothing ..

 

[Otto80]

ir worked for me
maybe they did launch an update, and you installed it

 

[k@y@]

I've just made a clean windows installation. I don't think that my pc's speed will be change and it will be faster than now but there is nothing to loose So i am going to try it. But if it will made my pc faster than now (recently installed windows) i will say that it is a really big, important, super thing

 

[eee]

My WinXP are now faster because of the placebo effect on me and not because of this l33t reghack. :tongue:

 

[AsukaLangley]

Teh 'superfetch' tweak is discussed here:
http://tinyurl.com/c6xhf

:google: turned up a few more 'superfetch' discussions & apparently it does nothing ..

yeah it worked great the first time i did the tweak ... what i did was add the registry entry then cleared my prefetch folder and rebooted, it took only 2 bars in the loading screen to boot windows up so i thought it was much faster then before but after haveing it for a while ive noticed its the same as it was before the registry tweak ... now it takes 4-5 loads in the loading screen to boot up and i dont see any noticeable speed changes anymore

 

[mla]

Didn't see any difference on my machines with that 'superthinggie' enabled.

 

[GTK]

i dont feel any diffrence with this tweak on.
i hope Vista will be faster.

 

[V9Gqt]

Another urban legend?! There is nothing to improve your pc speed except upgrade...

 

[xecuterbox]

I have just applied this to my 64 bit laptop running on xp pro sp2

boot time

before: 1:05
after: 1:05

nero:
before: 6sec
after: 6sec

autoroute
before: 12sec
after: 9sec

 

[brenthols]

I betcha they release a critical update to 'fix' this in a couple of weeks.

A couple of weeks? Don't you think that's rushing it by microsoft standards?

:biggrin:

 

[hes21]

I love placebos, nothing changes but you feel much better.

 

[eren]

My pc boots faster now.. and a bit fair speed difference.