Microsoft developer Ryan Myers explained in 2005 why deleting Prefetch hurt Windows performance. So, I tested the old trick on Windows 11.

Last week, I wrote about how I disabled Windows Prefetch to free up nearly 5GB of RAM on my system. At that time, I genuinely believed I was making a smart optimization. But as several readers in the ...

Like most PC users, RAM is something I constantly obsess over. After all, it’s the single most important component that decides how smooth my PC feels during everyday use. To that end, I recently also ...

September 19, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and ...

Can your online experience ever be fast enough? Probably not. And this is why Google is taking steps to speed up Chrome – or at least to make the browser feel as though it is faster. The company is ...

The birth of Windows represented a reference point in the computer history. For the first time, users have been able to work with more applications at the same time, using the new improved system ...

It has been almost two years since LWN covered the swap prefetch patch. This work, done by Con Kolivas, is based on the idea that if a system is idle, and it has pushed user data out to swap, perhaps ...

This new technical paper titled “AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time” is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a ...