same old tired excuses.
ever heard, if you cannot stand the heat, git out of the kitchen.
apparently you have.
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mikeyhsd said:
prefetch is a POOR attempt to fix a poorly written bloated os.
attmpts should been made to imporove the tools used to build it instead.
it has never worked correctly, leaving behind garbage for months.
it never removes entries for programs that are uninstalled.
even now they are using USB memory sticks to try and improve system speed.
another major failure.
way to many brands do not work.
send me a certified cashiers check for the cost of my system and will post
in style fo YOUR choice instead of >MINE.
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Ah, I see, just another Microsoft basher for the fun of bashing Microsoft.
Why is it that every time Microsoft tries (good or bad) to improve the user
experience someone has to bash the idea?
Pre-fetching is simply a way to load programs faster, if we were discussing
this same feature in Linux or on a Mac you would be asking why Microsoft
isn't using it too.
If there have been entries in your prefetch directory that are months old,
then there's either something broken (most likely due to your insistence on
deleting all the files in the directory) with the pre-fetch, or you simply
don't run enough different programs very often to have those files purged.
If there aren't enough new pf files created to push the old ones out, they’ll
just sit there (it keeps up to 128 pf files, so if you regularly only run a
total of 30 programs, and the 31st has been uninstalled, it won't push that
file out, plus it will never be updated since it's not possible to run an
uninstalled program.)
And how is using a USB stick to improve system speed a 'failure?' Sure,
it's a silly way to do it, but let's say you have a system that can only
install 2GB of RAM on the board and you have the option to stick a fast
flash-drive in your USB port to gain more RAM? Maybe not as fast as a true
RAM stick or two, but still, more, but slower, RAM is still faster than
paging to a hard drive. I'll never use it, I don't run enough large, or
multiple programs to fill up the RAM I have so I see no need on my system,
but it's nice to know I could stick a USB flash drive in my system if I need
a little boost in speed, or working RAM, for whatever reason
Oh, and as to the sticks that don't work for this boost, it depends on the
speed. If the flash-ram is no faster than paging to a hard drive for
whatever reason then there is no point to using that FR, right? Remember,
very cheap flash-ram usually means very-slow flash-ram. Fine for portable
storage, but lousy to use as extra RAM.
To conclude, I only brought up the HTML posting because it has been well
established in Usenet, and has spilled over to private newsgroups like
these, that posting in HTML is considered rude and unnecessary. While most
modern news-readers can handle it, some still can't, plus it's easier on the
eyes when posts are in plain text, editing for reply is easier and again,
it's just the excepted standard for newsgroup posting.
I'm sure one day, when those of us that have been using Usenet and
newsgroups for the past 20+ years finally give up on it, HTML will be just
fine, just like top-posting is becoming more and more ignored for its lack
of newsgroup etiquette, but in the here-and-now HTML posting simply shows
either that you're not nearly as computer savvy as you purport to be, or
you're simply so self-involved that you can't give up that silly, scrolling
email address on your posts to use what most consider standard, polite
posting etiquette.
I never thought I'd have to <PLONK> anyone in a private newsgroup, but
anything and everything is possible.
Mic
