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Yes cause I want to bore myself with that reading... and you should take a step back before you accuse someone of assumptions, you don't know my background or what I do.
I don't care what that book says. I have done my own testing and with superfetch on while gaming (world of warcraft for example), and while doing CAD work; my HD was constantly being accessed saturating the SB system and taking resources away from things like my network card which in turn increased my lag in games and decreased overall performance.
I tested this quite extensively when i switched to vista and was happy that I could disable it.
I have not, however, tested this with windows 7. At any rate most newer HD's are fast enough that if you keep your system somewhat maintained load times are not really a problem. Which is all superfetch helps. And if your boot times are slow then just use S3 standby.
wasting resources loading that RAM doesn't seem to be much better...
EDIT: Boot times and application loading is still faster in XP (ironically enough even through a VT window in windows 7...).
Last edited by BunBun; 30 Jan 2010 at 15:45.