Windows 7: SuperFetch - Change Prefetch Data to be Cached

Nice tutorial! just one question,



so how do you do that?

I didn't include it. What I was going to add turned out it doesn't actually work. You were too fast replying before I had chance to remove that line

fair enough shame i liked that idea

Here a small tool to automated the cleaning of the Prefetch folder, i used that since XP and it works fine on 7. Just drop it in the folder:

PS: This will set aswell "EnablePrefetcher" to value 2... just change the value of the "EnableSuperfetch" to 2.

Hmmmmmmm, I'm starting to think these settings are "feel good" settings. I set them each to 2, to 0 with Superfetch on, disabled, whatever. No matter how I set them it uses nearly half my ram as Standby. Not only that, but if I run no swap file, it pops up Out Of Memory dialog when I have 800 MB on Standby. It wants to see that swap file even if it only uses 90 MB of it. So I set it back to 3 each and turned Superfetch on. Gave it a one GB page file to make it happy!! Man it's really weird!!

When I get the Out Of Memory Dialog I just hit cancel since there's really 700 or 800 MB ram available. Really strange.

I just checked resource meter and it has me at 0 free memory but over a GB on Standby. Really crazy(and yes I know the theory of how prefetch works, but isn't it against the theory if it does it when it's shut off?)

edit: hmm, setting Superfetch to 2 made a big difference in Vista. But it looks like Windows 7 wants to prefetch no matter what. Trying it with the default 3 settings seems to be a bit snappier. It doesn't bog like Vista did with that setting. Guess I'll let it do what it wants.

What's the best option? have all caching applications and boot files or one doing one thing and the other, other.


I have it set
Prefetcher [1]
Superfetch [2]

Hello LM,

Unless you are having some sort of issue with superfetch, it's best to leave it set to default (3) for both.

After Windows load up there's hard disk activity for a while i thought Super F was the culprit.

In that case, you could test the different settings to see if it still does that afterwards. If it does, you could always set it back to default.

You might also test to see if it may be the index causing the activity as well.