Longhorn's most useful feature 'leaked 'as XP tweak!

ST2000_2

Use the following at your own risk!!!

Microsoft claims Longhorn will be, er, faster

The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetcher

you will notice in windows xp

EnablePrefetcher = 3 and you will notice in windows longhorn
EnableSuperfetch = 1

Well, guess what? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in windows xp and get the same speed.

Wow, Microsoft just added a feature that was already there in xp.

I've done mine and the difference is quite noticable. IE: Time your word pad opening before and after!! :eek:

P.S. I haven't put instructions because if you don't know how to get to registry settings you shouldn't be playing!

criminal_smile

ooohh...can't wait to get home and try that. Missus will crack up though....as I'm supposed to be painting. :rotfl:
I'm gonna blame you ST

danmanchester

I was looking at some Longhorn discs for sale on ebay (!) obviously copies of the beta testers release 5048....am tempted to try it and run on a partition, good or bad idea? (ie:would I be breaking any laws?)

sheraz2

hi all

if you could post some instructions on how to do it would be great as i would love to try but not too familiar with the resgistry.

thanks

danmanchester

Don't modify your registry sheraz2 unless you're really comfortable with it as you could completely !!!!!! up your system!!!

sheraz2

well i have registry mechanic and was thinking of backing up the registry before i made any changes.

wolfman

It's not really a tweak as such, more a setting. Has been around for a while. It just modifies how the prefetcher (a kind of cache folder) works.

There are a number of settings you can tweak it for:
0 - Disabled
1 - Application
2 - Boot
3 - Both

3 is the recommended setting (and I think default) as it's tweaked for both boot and applications. You can change is but what you gain in one respect you lose in another.

tightbarsteward

If your bothered about buggering up your registry just set a system restore point before you you run regedit.

Go to system tools > system restore.

Very quick & handy tool for backing up the registry.

freeonline

danmanchester wrote:

I was looking at some Longhorn discs for sale on ebay (!) obviously copies of the beta testers release 5048....am tempted to try it and run on a partition, good or bad idea? (ie:would I be breaking any laws?)

Last version is Windows Longhorn 5203(Longhorn 1 beta Build 5203)
released just a few days ago.
Not yet available or leaked.
Start familiarize yourself with it. Read the instructions carefully before install it if you decided to.
No idea about the law but i think the licence is for 180 days before it expires.

Lawbag_2

the beta build is targeted at specific users, part of the agreement for using the software is between Microsoft and the User. I would imagine part of that agreement dictates that the software cannot be sold or given away.

beware,

bbb_uk

wolfman wrote:

It's not really a tweak as such, more a setting. Has been around for a while. It just modifies how the prefetcher (a kind of cache folder) works.

There are a number of settings you can tweak it for:
0 - Disabled
1 - Application
2 - Boot
3 - Both

3 is the recommended setting (and I think default) as it's tweaked for both boot and applications. You can change is but what you gain in one respect you lose in another.

Are those settings for the "EnablePrefetcher" and/or the new DWord reg key, "EnableSuperfetch", as discussed in the OP?

I've just added the new DWord reg key as indicated and do believe the speed has increased but it could be in my mind (if you know what I mean) so i'll add this tweak to other computers which are actually slow and see if they notice it. Won't tell them I've done it and if it does truly work then they'll notice. If that makes sense?