How To Decrease your Applications startup time Windows XP

How To Decrease your Applications startup time Windows XP. By default, Microsoft includes the /prefetch:1 switch to speed up it's Windows Media Player application start time. This switch can be used for other Windows applications and also many third party programs.

Example #1

You have AOL 8.0 installed on the computer. Complete the steps outlined bewlo to add the /prefetch:1 switch to AOL's Target path.

• Right click on the AOL shortcut and select properties from the menu.

• In the Target: Field add the /prefetch:1 switch to the very end of the path, like this: "C:\ProgramFiles\America Online 8.0\aol.exe" /prefetch:1 and then click ok.

Now start AOL. It would load at least 50 times faster than ever before. 


Example #2

• Go to the Start button/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools

• Right click on System Restore and select properties from the menu that appears. Add the /prefetch:1 to the Target Path entry so it looks like this %ystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe /prefetch:1 and click ok.

Now System Restore will start immediately when executed.

Note: How To Decrease your Applications startup time Windows XP. This switch will only work with some programs. Others will return a message saying the program in the target box is invalid. Just remove the switch

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