Prefetching
instruction prefetch
<architecture> A technique which attempts to minimise the time
a processor spends waiting for instructions to be fetched
from memory. Instructions following the one currently being
executed are loaded into a prefetch queue when the processor's
external bus is otherwise idle. If the processor executes a
branch instruction or receives an interrupt then the queue
must be flushed and reloaded from the new address.
this can significantly speed up your boot time in WINXP.
here is how:
there is a tweak that makes XP Pro boot really fast
create an MS DOS batch file, name it ntosboot and put in "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without quotes) and put it in C:\
then you go to start, run then gpedit.msc
go to Windows Settings (in Computer Configuration) then go to shutdown. then you add ntosboot.bat
close gpedit and reboot
also about my boot timing. My BIOS boot timing is 1sec the total is 18sec.
I had disabled all of the game ports, floppies, i picked the Harddrive as the first boot, i disabled the secondary IDE, and much more crap which i don't use at the moment.
Linear Mode
