Cookie Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 This was on the inquirer site http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24749 The only reason why its faster (windows longhorn) is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetcher you will notice in windows xp EnablePrefetcher = 3 and you will notice in windows longhorn EnableSuperfetch = 1 Well, guess what? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in windows xp and get the same speed. Wow, Microsoft just added a feature that was already there in xp. snakeye [At your own risk, Ed.] Anyone know if this works? I'm unwilling to be the first to try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ar3s Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 i tried it and it works no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPHP Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Did it speed up your system though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 How did you do it? Is it create new binary then label it superfetch and value it at 1 or is it just change enableprefetcher value to 1? An as shadow said did it speed anything up? 586246642[/snapback] Create a new DWORD and set the value to 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 How did you do it? Is it create new binary then label it superfetch and value it at 1 or is it just change enableprefetcher value to 1? An as shadow said did it speed anything up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Hardly fair to say it's the ONLY reason that it's faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Cheers kjordan2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 You'd have to be quite deluded to think this actually works. You think microsoft coded this and then didn't tell us? No. There's also another, lengthy, thread already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 yea seen it before. i noticed quite a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Vector.. Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=346712 Same thread there ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 How retarded, can't believe how far this has gotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Sorry. But I did search for superfetch and prefetch but couldn't find anything so i thought no one posted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Vector.. Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 yea seen it before. i noticed quite a difference. 586246658[/snapback] You're BS'ing right? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrk Reviews Posted July 21, 2005 Reviews Share Posted July 21, 2005 no difference AT ALL. My xp pro SP2 had the value in at "3" by default and I changed to 1 then rebooted. I played some CSS and noticed my CSS wa sacting all gay, trying to hump my leg with lag and whatnot. I reverted back to 3 and rebooted then played same server again, no lag. This setting was enabled in Longhorn at value 1 for a reason. Not because they wanted XP users t suffer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yodat Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Here is a new one: EnableMEGAfetch = 1 this is not from Longhorn, it's from the version after Longhorn (Windows 2010). this one is even better than Superfetch, look it's MEGA ! [Kidding] Try this at your own risk and report here how much speed you gain :) [/Kidding] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 no difference AT ALL. My xp pro SP2 had the value in at "3" by default and I changed to 1 then rebooted.I played some CSS and noticed my CSS wa sacting all gay, trying to hump my leg with lag and whatnot. I reverted back to 3 and rebooted then played same server again, no lag. This setting was enabled in Longhorn at value 1 for a reason. Not because they wanted XP users t suffer.... 586246680[/snapback] You didn't follow the instructions. You don't change the current value from 3 to 1, you add a new DWORD and set that to 1. Either way, it doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I just wish someone would close these 2 threads about this. Just listening to people ask "Will it work" or "It made me go fasterrrr" is making me angry. Please stop the madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPHP Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Ok.. I've done it, Not restarting yet though - Downloading. I will let you know how it turns out if this topic is still active when I reset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiREFLi Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Ok..I've done it, Not restarting yet though - Downloading. I will let you know how it turns out if this topic is still active when I reset. 586246717[/snapback] Gaaaaaaaaaaaaagh :argh:This is beyond insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue` Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I did the megaprefetch, my god, XP is 1 kabillion times faster now :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 no difference AT ALL. My xp pro SP2 had the value in at "3" by default and I changed to 1 then rebooted.I played some CSS and noticed my CSS wa sacting all gay, trying to hump my leg with lag and whatnot. I reverted back to 3 and rebooted then played same server again, no lag. This setting was enabled in Longhorn at value 1 for a reason. Not because they wanted XP users t suffer.... 586246680[/snapback] You are not supposed to set the value of the existing key. You are supposed to create a new one. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makeshift Hammer Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 i did UltraSuperPrefetch and now my computer is so fast everything happens without me even being able to see it :o My songs play 100 million times faster too and my computer doesnt "reboot" anymore, the screen just flashes it's that fast. Back to the real world though, i was sad enough to actually time how long things took, and that registry edit done nothing at all. I done multiple reboots so the prefetch data could build up (assuming that would make my boot times faster) and it didn't change one iota. It's a falsehood, it's really that simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroBS Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 how could the inquirer lie to us like that? :cry: they have never done lied to us before :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 What exactly is the super supposed to do over what the normal already does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme $niper Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 You are not supposed to set the value of the existing key. You are supposed to create a new one. :rolleyes: 586248471[/snapback] Thats EXACTLY why things like this shouldnt be put out into the public. People get all excited about it and try to change system settings by themselves, potentially screwing everything up. If you have never been in the registry editor before, or do not know what the hell you are doing, don't attempt it and get the hell out of your registry editor. Unless of course you WANT to feck up your system and not know how to fix it because obviously if you cant figure out regedit, then you wouldnt know any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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