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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: Mac on July 21, 2005, 07:01:01 AM

Title: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 21, 2005, 07:01:01 AM: 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?
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Raptor on July 21, 2005, 10:22:45 AM: Interesting!

Have you enabled the option and has Windows continued to function?
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 21, 2005, 11:26:20 AM: I have, on XP Pro on the C: drive, and it does.

I can't see any difference though.
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Raptor on July 21, 2005, 01:17:24 PM: What has Microsoft got to say on this function, then?

I shall configure the game computer to use this tweak tomorrow.
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: merlin_2 on July 21, 2005, 06:39:15 PM: Longhorn more bugs than the amazon jungle has!
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 22, 2005, 08:20:11 AM: Quote
What has Microsoft got to say on this function, then?

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

I haven't seen anything official. How is the gamer running?
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 22, 2005, 08:22:02 AM: Quote
Longhorn more bugs than the amazon jungle has!

Maybe soaking the CD in Raid will cure these problems.
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Raptor on July 22, 2005, 12:00:48 PM: I added the Dword value. Nothing has happened. The total size of the prefetch folder is still the same and the computer still boots just as fast.

Quote
Longhorn more bugs than the amazon jungle has

It's a good thing they are discovering new species as we speak!
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 22, 2005, 03:52:19 PM: Went a little further and installed the Longhorn Transformation Pack 10.5 (Freeware).

This is the result.

(http://server2.uploadit.org/files/mcgregor-Longhorn.jpg)

And it works too!
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Raptor on July 22, 2005, 03:53:40 PM: They had better add a classical look.. Although I do like it that they got rid of the white and made it black. Easier on the eyes.

Does the EnableSuperfetch work when you download the transformation pack?

Vista opens on Microsoft Windows (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4708177.stm)
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: merlin_2 on July 22, 2005, 04:23:16 PM: Amazing! stuff that raid mac......do you have to spray it on microsoft employees also...? there is no flys on them? does ddt work this same....Longhorn suffers from programmers>>>boredom?......thats why i guess easter eggs can be found.....
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 22, 2005, 04:43:52 PM: Quote
They had better add a classical look.. Although I do like it that they got rid of the white and made it black. Easier on the eyes.

Does the EnableSuperfetch work when you download the transformation pack?

Vista opens on Microsoft Windows (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4708177.stm)

EnableSuperfetch is probably another of those hoax tweaks. Hasn't made the slightest difference.

The Windows Blinds version looks good too. But the thing that always seems to be lacking is the icon array and third party program integration where looks are concerned.
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: Mac on July 22, 2005, 04:49:22 PM: Thinks...

Only a technogeek would sit in a concrete bunker looking at an electronic virtual countryside with no sheep and no shepherds.

On a mountain high...

MS Profits: $8.2bn (2004)

What profit any man, if he should 'gain' the whole world and live in a soulless environment...?
Title: Re: Longhorn Registry Modification for XP
Post by: merlin_2 on July 22, 2005, 04:59:28 PM: Mac do you think this is a transitional patch to enable msoft to dictate what software is loaded on longhorn alfa?