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Longhorn Registry Modification for XP

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Mac:
Found on the web...

Microsoft claims that Longhorn will be faster because they added a Superfetch feature to the prefetcher.

In Windows XP, if you look at the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters you'll see:

EnablePrefetcher = 3

In Windows Longhorn you should see:

EnableSuperfetch = 1

So what do you know? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in Windows XP and get the same speed.

Microsoft just 'added' a feature that was - already there - in XP!


Just a note on the key name:

Add DWORD

EnableSuperfetch = 1

Which will look like this.

(EnableSuperfetch REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1)

Anyone tried it yet and found an improvement?

Are you supposed to leave the EnablePrefetch key in place?

Raptor:
Interesting!

Have you enabled the option and has Windows continued to function?

Mac:
I have, on XP Pro on the C: drive,  and it does.

I can't see any difference though.

Raptor:
What has Microsoft got to say on this function, then?

I shall configure the game computer to use this tweak tomorrow.

merlin_2:
Longhorn more bugs than the amazon jungle has!

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