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Old 07-22-05, 12:54 AM Thread Starter   #1
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Talking Subject: Microsoft claims Longhorn will be, er, faster


This is an article i found on :: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24749
I run an Athlon 64 3500+ Windows xp pro 64 .
this is what the article say,

Subject: Microsoft claims Longhorn will be, er, faster
The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetcher

you will notice in windows xp

EnablePrefetcher = 3 and you will notice in windows longhorn
EnableSuperfetch = 1

Well, guess what? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in windows xp and get the same speed.

Wow, Microsoft just added a feature that was already there in xp.

I tried this and my system does run about 20% faster and boots faster.
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This value does absolutely nothing.
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Why does this keep coming up. This is false. Longhorn is built off the Server 2003 engine and will be optimised for 64 bit apps which manage memory better.

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Old 07-22-05, 08:44 AM   #5
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Why does this keep coming up. This is false. Longhorn is built off the Server 2003 engine and will be optimised for 64 bit apps which manage memory better.
Ya. My favorite part of the little description is this.

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The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key:
Who would even believe this when they say something like that?
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