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12Dec/090

{Tutorial} – Decrease Boot-time by Using Boot-Only Fetching in Windows7

If you have a lot of applications set to launch at startup you will notice slow bootings and decreased performance. With this trick you will have the PC to boot first and then launch the applications.

1. Click START.

2. Go to the Search programs and files textbox and input regedit.

3. Select regedit.exe from the results.

4. When the UAC prompt appears, click the Yes button. (if you have UAC enabled)

5. In the left pane of the Registry Editor, go to (and select):

HLKM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParameters

6. In the right pane, double-click EnablePrefetcher.

7. Change the value to 2 and click the OK button.

8. Double-click EnableSuperfetch.

9. Change the value to 2 and click the OK button.

10. Close the Registry Editor.

If you want to change the settings back to their default values, repeat the above steps, but change EnablePrefetcher and EnableSuperfetch to 3

Great tutorial again from MASTERGENIUS.NET :P