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Delete Prefetch Automatically
Posted 9/9/2002 by TweakXP Member - Views: 33309

Here's an easy way to delete your prefetch -- Automatically!!



1. Go into My Computer and go into your hard drive.



2. Right-click anywhere that a file is not and select the 'New' submenu and click 'Text Document'



3. Name it "deleteprefetch"



4. Double-click on the text file you just created.



5. Type "del C:\Windows\Prefetch\*.* /Q" (without the quotes).



6. Go to File > Save As... and choose "All Files" from the "Save as Type" box and save it as "deleteprefetch.bat"



7. You just created a batch file that will automatically delete all the files in your Prefetch folder. Congrats.



Note: For more information on Prefetching see the following URL:



http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/performance/benchmark.mspx



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