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XP Prefetch Resurrection

Just check if C:\Windows\Prefetch has any new files from recent applications.
A new pf file should be made when you launch an application.

Hope that helps.
 
It does help, but I didn’t so much already know that as suspect that. Its emptiness prompted this thread and I should’ve mentioned that right off. Anyway, I've brushed those entries aside until I know more about this.

I’m looking for an epiphany to make my XP run like new again, even though I’ve been dinking with it for eight years and strongarming it to live in an online world, even with prehistoric stuff like IE8. Not to mention dustocating it.

I’m trying to put off a getting new computer until Win 8.1 or a 17” tablet appears.
 
Can't you just reinstall over top and have it fix everything?

worked fine on older version of windows up to me, it owuld remeber 99% of setting and programs but fixed goofs like that.
 
^ Actually, it *may* have been the gmail outage yesterday... Just speculation. I am not aware of anything that a defrag would do to email.
 
Okay, I found a poorly dressed program that seems to have resurrected my prefetch system, called Prefetch Optimizer 1.0. After several reboots, it appears that some things are a lot faster, some about the same and some a bit slower. But it seems proper, the prefetch folder is already loaded up. It’s a winner just because I’m tired of trying garbage and gobacking it outta there.
 
On the off-chance that someone is interested in my meanderings, here’s what the registry’s prefetch looks like when it actually works...

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I could be mistaken, but I don't think prefetch affects the system speed wise much at all.

And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that program didn't do too much. I checked my prefect hive in regedit and it matched your first post. It looks to me that the program you ran disabled prefetch on boot and app launch (which is it's one of it's main functions).

But at least it's working for ya.
 
I think it just reinserted the lines – everything in that section – that I removed years ago, following someone’s advice. I’m still not sure it starts faster, but for some reason, it definitely shuts down faster. Anyway, it wasn’t fetching at all before and now it is, for what that’s worth.
 
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