What Is Prefetch Folder?
Aug 15, 2005what is the prefetch folder and what is it used for?
View 16 Replieswhat is the prefetch folder and what is it used for?
View 16 RepliesJust wondering... lotta stuff in there.....some say yes, some say no!!
View 3 Replies View RelatedSince Windows Vista™ (formerly code named Longhorn) was announced there have
been many articles in the news letters and Forums I visit suggesting that
SuperFetch in Vista™ can be initiated in XP SP2 with tweaks for faster
performance by editing the registry by editing the Session Manager settings
in the Current Control Set.The most common view was set prefetch in Current Control Set to enable dword value 3.Others suggest purging the prefetch folder frequentlyAs far as I know the prefetch in XP SP2 is the same as it has been in Windows version from way back and it is not possible to enable the superfetch that is in Vista™.
Very slow start up(13-14 min) Windows X P.I am getting pop up that says corrupt file CwindowsprefetchJQSNOTIFY.EXE-24AE4A36.PF is corrupt.RunChkdsk utility.I have backed up my files, did a disc clean up,and a defrag 92 % space avail.,attempted to run the Chkdsk but with the very slow srart-up after reboot it never ran(waited 30 min.) I did this twice,no results.Would it be possible (if I can get to the folder) to just delete everything in the folder & start it anew?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI read that clearing the prefetch data cache folder of all its files will speed up start up? Is this true and is it safe?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI found this 'tip' recently and even though 'boot speed' is NOT an issue, I was wondering what you people thought? Is this safe to do and is it worth doing?
Prefetch Clutter
I am trying to copy my Quicken files and it states it automatically copies them in the Windows XP's temporary CD burning folder. How do I find this folder to copy these files onto a CD or DVD.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm played with the folder options over and over and for some reason ever though I have clicked open folder in same window and "launch folder window in a separate process" is NOT clicked, for some reason when I double click to open a folder it still opens it with a new window. Also, under file types it won't let me edit or remove the commands for folder, drive, and file folder.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a problem. When I double click a folder, I am sent to the Search Results folder and the content of my folder is not displayed. To access the files from a folder I need to right-click and click on the Open command
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to delete duplicate pictures from a folder it just keeps copying them onto the same folder and I wind up with more duplicates
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen i download pictures from my camera to a named folder it goes into another folder. why?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I try and open My Pictures for example it opens up command prompt for that folder. I've been messing about in My Computer trying to change folder icons. But some how I've managed to stop opening fodlers.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn previously highlighted issues regarding backing-up shared documents to my Seagate Freeagent hard drive, I simply decided to move the My Music Folder from the shared documents folder, but Windows is disallowing me from doing this stating that My Music is a Windows system folder & cannot be renamed or removed? Any help please on getting around this to move My Music from the shared documents? I'm running XP with servce pack 3.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a shared folder which contains many folders for many users on my network and to make users folders recognisable we chose to fix a folder picture of every folder with the picture of the folder owner. The problem is that those folders never have a constant folder picture on all of my network computers as the picture always changes for some reason, I've tried to set permissions on thumb.db file
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm absolutely dumbstruck by what just happened. I was a little too quick with my clicking, and instead of opening the folder containing my pictures, I dragged it into another folder called "14941b93d3ad9f41aa7df524fe". I will refer to it as the folder of doom. The folder contains two sub-folders
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a recurring problem on Folder Views / Folder Types that has been bugging me for a long time. You can customize a folder with a "folder type" - Documents, Pictures, Music, Video, etc - which comes with a default view and a list of default attributes most relevant to the type (artist and album title for music, dimension for video, etc). You can also setup so that the settings are "memorized". However, the memory seems to be quite short term for some of my folders. They tend to randomly reset themselves and there seems to be a consistent but unrecognizable pattern. For example, my "My Documents" folder is always changed to a pictures folder, while some of my music folders are changed to video
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was just changing some folder icons in Folder Options>File Types and now when I click on a folder it opens in OneNote! I went to File Types>File Folder>Advanced and under the Actions it reads: Add to VLC find Lock folder with Folder Lock Open as Notebook in OneNote
Play with VLC
The first two of the 3 check boxes underneath are ticked. I have no idea what the default action was before, but I don't see anything resembling simply open a folder. Can anyone help me reset the default action or create a new one to open the folder?
i updated my windows XP home edition to service pack2, but i recently found out that my system32 folder is missing from C:WINDOWS.I also use search to look for it and i couldn't find it anywhere on My Computer.I have also been getting an Application error recently and i have noticed this after i deleted my AVG anti-virus (I'm not sure whether deleting AVG was the problem).The error says:"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.Sometimes the application is rundll32.exe, explorer.exe and when i turn on my computer it says that the error is userinit.exe at the welcome screen.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to duplicate data from the OE store folder into another folder in an automatic way, so that there is always an updated backup available?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor some reason, the right-click context menu on any of my folders now defaults to Search..., but this is not in my Folder or File Folder in File Types. I will post an HJT log if needed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to create two unqiue shortcuts that will copy two different folders contents and overwrite to another folder (including all sub-folders & files).The destination folder/subs will be the same location for both of the other two folders being copied.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to password protect a folder without having to password protect all the dcouments in the folder?
View 1 Replies View Relatedchanged the properties of my folders, I want to issue one specific folder/subfolders with a password, but the 'Make this folder private' tickbox is greyed out and I cannot select it.
View 4 Replies View Relatedall my folders have a duplicate folder inside them that cannot be opened and no matter how many times i delete it it keeps coming back, further to that my start menu is all screwed up all the subfolders on the all programs list are gone and all the programes aswell and when u install new ones it puts them there but then they dissapear
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have hundreds of photos in subfolders, the photo names being prefixedwith a 4-digit sequence number.I would like to be able to create a text file containing all the files
sorted by File Name and then showing the sub-folder that they are in -is that possible?
In Local Settings/Temp there keeps appearing a folder QWMSHTML, It is showing as empty, I delete it but when I look again it is there. Anyone offer info. as to what it is
View 3 Replies View Relateddelete the contain of this folder without cuzing problems C:Documents and Settings Local SettingsTemp on win XP it is 750 MB
View 2 Replies View RelatedI ve got a simple network where i can see shared folder in the workgroup folder. Everythink works fine but i have created a new account for my friend and when accesing with that account i cannot access the shared folder any more and prompts for user name and password.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a USB external drive. Somehow a folder on it is now a "operating system" folder. Whenever I plug in the USB drive I have to click on Tools -> Folder Options and uncheck the box "Hide protected operating system files" on the View tab, or I can not see the folder.How do I set it as a non "operating system" folder? On the properties tab of the folder, the hidden attribute is ticked and greyed out so I can not untick it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI made the change below however, if I click on a folder in the left hand "Folders" pane, it works as before and opens the folder and displayed in the contents in the right hand pane.
However, if I click on any folders in the right hand (files pane) a new windows explorer window opens a displays the "my documents".
The same thing happens if you click on a shortcut to a folder. Instead of the folder opening, it opens a new window and displays "my documents".
This problems started when I added a new function to the folder file folder file type properties to print out the contents of a folder by calling a batch file that piped the content to a file.
In the file association for file folders in the advanced section I now have three functions
- the afore mentioned 'create file list'
- explore (the default), and
- find
For the folder file type I just have:
- explore and
- open
Any suggestions on how to put things back to the way Windows Explorer always worked before make clicking folders in the right hand pane open them up properly in the same window as per clicking them on the left hand pane?
In using Windows XP Explorer seaching for files Win XP is sorting the files alphbetically..z to A with subfolders at the end. How do I reverse the Folder Sort from A to Z with subfolders up front?
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