If u use a Solid state drive on ur windows , be sure the SuperFetch process is turned OFF , if u have a normal HDD be sure it is ENABLED.
here is a link that can learn u how to enable/disable it
Windows 10, 8 7: Enable or Disable Superfetch
Do note it may take up to 3 days for it to become visible (its effects)
No. Those 'problems' with Superfetch were fixed almost a decade ago and that information is just clickbait BS these days... Those articles only ever mention "superfetch" as 'bad' but if it was ever able to destroy your ssd then you would also have major issues with web browser caching which is considerably more active and also much larger than what Superfetch does.
Superfetch does two things:
1) Caches binaries in memory - you see Superfetch named "cached memory" on the Task manager memory tab.
2) Stores the binary cache on disk - needed for quicker system startup and during process creation for faster process creation.
The only times Superfetch read/writes to disk is on system startup to load the binary cache into memory and when a new program is installed - tiny compared to web browser caching activity. If you disable superfetch then Windows needs to read binaries from disk every time they are launched instead of using the 'cached' copy already in memory and you're in fact causing more SSD read/write activity by disabling it.
This article sums it up: "Even at 700TB, the lowest failure threshold, you could write 100 GB a day to the drive every single day for over 19 years before the drive failed." and after 4 months it's only used 15.3MB on my system (with Visual Studio and hundreds of other tools installed for development work):
https://i.imgur.com/62cGdhB.png
Here are some other myths:
Don’t Waste Time Optimizing Your SSD, Windows Knows What Its Doing
Consider using WPR to record the shutdown, boot, etc.
The challenge will be to learn how to analyze the results or find someone to interpret them:
Hi All, Not sure if I missed any threads - but has anyone mentioned Windows Update?
I bet everything that the problem is Windows Update - don't bother about antivirus, device drivers, nor changing any other configuration.
It is Windows Update - downloading stuff in stealth mode in the background, then making changes to system configuration again in stealth mode. There is usually something quite suspicious when things are being done in stealth mode.
Anyway, there are various ways to stop Windows Update, but none of them seems to be working fully (including changing Registry settings). When Windows want to Update, nothing can stop it.
Please PROVE me wrong by doing this.
- open CMD as "run as administrator"
- then, on the command line type: net stop wuauserv
- Don't trust me, google wuauserv to check what it does. It is the Windows Update service. The line above tells Windows to stop.
- Run the above command a few times with a few seconds in between.
- If Windows is not doing anything, that command will return quickly with a message saying 'The Windows Update service is not started.' That is good.
- The message may say: '..... The WIndows Update service was stopped successfully'. This is good too.
- But sometimes, the command just HANG or says something like '... cannot be stopped' - I BET YOU, when your computer is slow (even using File Explorer gets stuck), and later Windows Sign Off takes forever - in this situations you will find that 'net stop wuauserv' is also getting stuck.
So if your PC gets super-slow, unresponsive, and then the command 'net stop wuauserv' seems to hang, then you sign-off which takes forever - that proves it is Windows Update.
Can someone please prove me wrong. If I'm not wrong, then we need to petition MS to stop forcing updates on us, or do it verbosely/transparently or really FIX the algorithm behind Windows Update.
Thanks
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