Another effort to enhance your PC's performance, a MUST DO!!
If you're anything like me, SPEED, is essential when it comes to my computers and their performance. Here is Another MUST TRY that can make a significant change in loading times for ANY application.
For this example, I'm going to use one of my favorite programs. If you use it, you know that it takes a little while to load; especially if you have extra fonts, brushes, etc...loaded that it needs to read. Well, were gonna make it faster along with nay other program you wanna speed up.
STEP 1: Right click on the Adobe Photoshop shortcut and select properties from the menu.
STEP 2: In the Target: Field add the /prefetch:1 switch to the very end of the path.
So originally, the Target Field shows:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Photoshop.exe"
You are going to make it show:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Photoshop.exe" /prefetch:1
There is a space between the" and the /
STEP 3: Select Apply and O.K.; or just O.K. is fine and your change will be applied.
NOTE: This switch does not work with all programs. If you complete Step 3 and get a 'target box invalid' message, just remove the /prefetch:1, Select O.K., and all will go back to normal.
This has been tested w/ Windows XP and works.
ENJOY!!
The "/prefetch" parameter was added into the C++ library a while ago, think last year, when called upon, it will load directly into the memory and not be extracted on to the computer HDD, which can be defined in System properties. Really good tweak.
