Windows 10 Home and SSD

swarfega said:

Yea I know it does that, I wanted to make sure @RainbowPride knew that too.

Yes, actually I did. I'm a licensed computer technician in Arkansas & Oklahoma.

f14tomcat said:

If you are referring to this, he said delete the contents, not disable it.

".....and I also delete the Prefetch Folder contents once or a twice a week. "

Deleting the contents in the Prefetch folder doesn't hurt anything.

RainbowPride said:

Deleting the contents in the Prefetch folder doesn't hurt anything.

Doesn't help either

thomaseg1 said:

Doesn't help either

It doesn't, it will fill up as soon as any program is started anyway. Only when you uninstall a lot of SW it would keep entries for those and and take up some space but even that is not much.

RainbowPride said:

Deleting the contents in the Prefetch folder doesn't hurt anything.

I think you meant to quote and post to this member. I was only correcting his post, not commenting on right or wrong of doing it.

Windows 10 Home and SSD

CountMike said:

It doesn't, it will fill up as soon as any program is started anyway. Only when you uninstall a lot of SW it would keep entries for those and and take up some space but even that is not much.

In support of your post:

1. If you don’t run a program, Windows does not access the Prefetch information.
2. Windows maintains a maximum of 128 entries in the Prefetch folder. It cleans itself automatically.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-07f06a2f2d54

f14tomcat said:

In support of your post:

Windows maintains a maximum of 128 entries in the Prefetch folder. It cleans itself automatically.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-07f06a2f2d54

Hmmm really? I just opened mine and it has 260.

My Prefetch folder has 245 items in it.

RainbowPride said:

Hmmm really? I just opened mine and it has 260.

Ztruker said:

My Prefetch folder has 245 items in it.

That was a kinda old MS article, if you consider Vista kinda old. Obviously, they've bumped that up. Self cleaning part still holds true.