Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th May 2009 20:43 UTC
SuperFetch is a technology in Windows Vista and onwards that is often misunderstood. I decided to delve into this technology to see what it is all about, and to dispel some of the myths surrounding this feature.
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Member since:2005-06-29
I don't see the differences with the prefetching mechanism available in Windows XP. Maybe there are some optimizations, but the approach is the same. It's a marketing name for a retouched XP prefetcher, I think.
See here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/112054-superfetch-vs-pr...
Member since:
2006-06-20
I don't see the differences with the prefetching mechanism available in Windows XP. Maybe there are some optimizations, but the approach is the same. It's a marketing name for a retouched XP prefetcher, I think.