Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and spyware-cleaning suspects, there's an interesting section on disabling Windows' prefetch ...

Every time you run an application on your PC, a Prefetch file that contains information about the files loaded by the application is created by the Windows operating system. The information in the ...

"prefetch" is basically a system service that is *supposed* to speed up access to selected applications by maintaining a db of your apps and PRE LOADING elements that allow them to load faster. Kind ...

Every time you run an application in your PC, a Prefetch file that contains information about the files loaded by the application is created by the Windows operating system. The information in the ...

Here's a quick summary of the PREFETCH and INF ploys I mentioned in a separate blog here. These are alternatives (or supplements) used by support scammers from India to the Event Viewer and ...

This new technical paper titled “AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time” is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a ...

High-performance processors employ hardware data prefetching to reduce the negative performance impact of large main memory latencies. An effective prefetching mechanism can improve cache hit rate ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...

Google explains how it uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch search results, improving loading speeds on Chrome browsers. Google preloads top search results to speed up page load times using the ...