[Guide/Script]Better computer performance for general gaming

[Ca2n4g3]

Dear mmowned friends. This is my very first contribution. Ive searched for an older topic to make sure its not a repost. Feel free to flame, cheer and have a beer with me.

Steps - Simple Script Guide

1 - First open your notepad to have a new text file on your screen;

2 - In the very first line, add the following:
del C:\Windows\Prefetch\*.* /Q

3 - In the second line, add the following:
Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

4 - Save your file somewhere like your desktop with the .bat extension;
*make sure you dont do something dumb like myfile.bat.txt doh... must be myfile.bat

5 - Now plain simple, double click this file, a DOS window will pop and execute this actions. Right after it disapears, you may launch your game, app, or whatever.


What does it do?
The first line will empty the windows prefetch files, leaving a clean new session for whatever you want to do. The second line will track and kill all the idle process on your system.

P.S. - If your running a very fast computer, this wont be as great as those who use it on slow machines.

[SnorlaxHF]

Lol nice, but what is in the folder C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch?

Can't find anything nice on google :P

[Ca2n4g3]

Lol nice, but what is in the folder C:WINDOWSPrefetch?

Can't find anything nice on google :P

Windows XP has this feature that loads commonly used programs - at boot time.

Here is how it works: Yesterday you used MS Word, and Duke Nukem 3D. Today you boot your system to check e-mail. It sees parts of these two programs in the prefetch folder and loads them into memory before windows completes the boot process. The benefit is faster application launch times. If you really wanted to use MS Word, it would pop up really quick when you double clicked on it.

The problem is most people have been running windows for years, and the prefetch gets clogged with stuff that you almost never use. Windows takes forever to boot because it is prefetching a 1.0 copy of Napster, and you just want to check your email before you have to go to work.

And at this point you will be about to... blow your PC up, unless you clear the prefetch before.

Is it clear for you now?

[Kubiatsu]

Can anyone who knows about PC shizzle confirm this, deleting something in the Windows folder seems pretty sketchy to me ^^

[ovation]

I added "@echo on" at the top for the hell of it (remove quotation marks). For those of you wondering whether this will mess up your computer it won't. I've tested multiple times with nothing broken so far. As far as improving system performance I can't really test that. With my rig I get 60fps in pretty much every area except shat and in shat it's dependent on how many other players in the area so I can't really do a fair test.

[TomDaChamp]

Nice this hels alot, even though I have a fast computer it still makes it go that extra mile. Thanks for this, i will use this every time before i play WoW now! +Rep

[oxymoron1c]

Must've disabled that service some time ago or something. Prefetch folder doesn't exsist

[sneakkz]

Oh yes, the prefetch folder does exist=)

[anotherpvper]

Good idea and for the critics out there:
Nothing will crash, just take a look at the files in your prefetch folder,
just a few kb of files from last launched programms, nothing to worry about.

[Ca2n4g3]

Can anyone who knows about PC shizzle confirm this, deleting something in the Windows folder seems pretty sketchy to me ^^

Remember, you are deleting prefetch files, not common files.

Means these load up your processing, not as the others that just stay sitting quiet inside a folder till they are executed.

Take a read in the quote right above your answer.

Hope it helps.

[~Jagris]

Okay I tried it and nothing bad happened about to run wow uploading SS from ORG, I get about 2 FPS regualry there, and I don't run smoothly, sorry I didn't get a before after, I also ran smooth while doing this so its good:

[Mr. Retail]

Trying right now, I'll upload a video soon when I get back from school.

Late

[Kubiatsu]

Alright I will give it a try and see if it helps at all, though I usually get alright FPS but it can drop and raise alot giving me fps lag.

[berryman13]

Nice guide...and in just a sec, welcome out of leechers

[Sondrekek]

nice maybe this is working my brother tried it but it dident work on himm


i am gonna try tho