windows XP prefetch

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1

Hello All,

I am wondering what is stored in the windows XP prefetch (.pf) files under
the folder \windows\prefetch.
It there way to know what is stored in NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf? any one knows.

I am thinking our RAID controller has large cache can prefetch as well ahead
of time based upon the contents of NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf (if we know what is
stored in it) and help bootup XP even faster

Any thoughts?

I appreciate
Shakeel.

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> It there way to know what is stored in NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf?
These are prefetch files.
The idea is to make the boot process (in XP and above) faster than it was in
w2k.

Re-read 4th edition of Mark’s bible, pp. 458 et al. (“Logical Prefetcher”)
and/or look at Strings.exe
from www.sysinternals.com or just google for NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD and you’ll
hit
quite a list of hits, http://mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41290 is
just one of
them.

Regards,
Alex Shvedov

----- Original Message -----
From: “shakeel”
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To: “Windows File Systems Devs Interest List”
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: [ntfsd] windows XP prefetch

> Hello All,
>
> I am wondering what is stored in the windows XP prefetch (.pf) files under
> the folder \windows\prefetch.
> It there way to know what is stored in NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf? any one
> knows.
>
> I am thinking our RAID controller has large cache can prefetch as well
> ahead
> of time based upon the contents of NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf (if we know what
> is
> stored in it) and help bootup XP even faster
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> I appreciate
> Shakeel.
>
>
>
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