Originally Posted by
Phopojijo
It did it in XP too, it just does it more tenaciously since the advent of "Readyboost" technology... basically also allowing you to prefetch to USBkeys and such. Useful for solid state hybrid drives so they don't use a lot of space.
But to answer your question -- C:\windows\prefetch\ delete its contents with extreme prejudice.
Then, after you're done that: Regedit!
HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
Change the value of EnablePrefetcher and EnableSuperfetch to 0 (from 3).
This all being said -- this is also what XP did... just XP had a much smaller code to do this... so you may find loading programs more laggy than XP. But you got the option -- quicker loads or more top end performance... your choice. Even though I don't find that the used memory is all that much of a strain since Windows releases memory a LOT better than it used to (back in the 16/32 days of Win95-ME)
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