Re: Is it okay to delete windows preftch files



Curmudgeon

What you hurt by doing it is speed of access.. in what way would that not be
detrimental?.. Windows will now have to build the prefetch again, a process
that spans more than one reboot, and that will slow down the computers until
such time as the process has completed..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept
it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland


"Curmudgeon" <krmujn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Trafton wrote:
>
>> I would personally recommend against this.
>
> That's his opinion. You can't hurt anything by doing it.
>
> I doubt that it will help, but give it a try anyway.
>


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