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How long to start populating Prefetch folder?
Because I got a new motherboard, I had to do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Pro 32-bit SP1 on June 9. Here it is June 21 and my Prefetch folder has zero program entries. In addition, possibly related, from the time I boot my PC until all the hard drive thrashing is finished is 2 min, 15 sec. Soluto said that a full 58-65 seconds of that was Avira Free loading and scanning at boot. It also takes a long time to launch any other programs, no matter what they are. Virus and malware scans are clean.
I've done a site search for this. I checked the Registry for that key value that tells Windows to prefetch everything, and I do not use CCleaner to clean out old prefetch entries. I have checked the Prefetch folder for content at random times and there's never any new entries there, even days after booting and running (I run Folding@Home 24/7).
What gives? Any ideas? I'd appreciate some insight.