wants to start FireFox faster

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I have Win XP SP3. I am trying to make Fire Fox start faster like IE7. I
keep putting the switch prefetch:1 in the 'start in' box but my system won't
allow it. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,
David
 
titus12 said:
I have Win XP SP3. I am trying to make Fire Fox start faster like IE7. I
keep putting the switch prefetch:1 in the 'start in' box but my system
won't
allow it. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,
David
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David

Prefetch - /Prefetch:1

Myth - "Adding the /Prefetch:1 Switch to the startup path of a program's
shortcut will decrease the program's startup time."

Reality - It does not improve performance in any way. All it does is
change your hash number - the OS is doing exactly the same thing it did
before, and just saving the prefetch pages to a different file. Ryan
Myers of Microsoft's Windows Client Performance Team writes: "The
/prefetch:# flag is looked at by the OS when we create the process -
however, it has one (and only one) purpose. We add the passed number to
the hash. Why? WMP is a multipurpose application and may do many
different things. The DLLs and code that it touches will be very
different when playing a WMV than when playing a DVD, or when ripping a
CD, or when listening to a Shoutcast stream, or any of the other things
that WMP can do. If we only had one hash for WMP, then the prefetch
would only be correct for one such use having incorrect prefetch data
would not be a fatal error - it'd just load pages into memory that'd
never get used, and then get swapped back out to disk as soon as
possible. Still, it's counterproductive. By specifying a /prefetch:#
flag with a different number for each "mode" that WMP can do, each mode
gets its own separate hash file, and thus we properly prefetch. (This
behavior isn't specific to WMP - it does the same for any app.) This
flag is looked at when we create the first thread in the process, but it
is not removed by CreateProcess from the command line, so any app that
chokes on unrecognized command line parameters will not work with it.
This is why so many people notice that Kazaa and other apps crash or
otherwise refuse to start when it's added. Of course, WMP knows that it
may be there, and just silently ignores its existence. I suspect that
the "add /prefetch:1 to make rocket go now" urban legend will never die,
though."

- Debunking yet another bogus Windows tip (Ed Bott, Author: Microsoft
Windows XP Inside Out)
- Misinformation and the The Prefetch Flag (Ryan Myers, Windows Client
Performance Team)
Source: http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html


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Hope this helps.

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You light a fire under it's brush!

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