SQT: Clean Your Windows
June 14th, 2008 · by David Bradley
If you’re Windows XP machine is getting slower day by day, then clear out your Windows XP’s “Prefetch” folder. Go to %windows%\Prefetch (on my machine that’s c:\windows\prefetch, for instance) and simply delete all the “.pf” files. The Prefetch system was added to Windows to improve the operating system’s performance, by saving essential snippets of information about recently used programs and allowing them to be loaded more quickly next time you need them. In the short term it works relatively well, but if the folder gets overloaded, it can slow your machine down.
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My machine is getting really slow and it’s been irritating. I checked this folder and there are only 4mb, it seems too little amount of files to delete. What do you say?
Couple of additional things to check: remaining hard disk space. If that’s low it can slow your machine, also hard disk fragmentation levels. And, spyware/malware if you’ve got any serious malware it could slow the fastest machine to a grinding halt.
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