Windows Vista SuperFetch
MS Windows Vista’s SuperFetch is a memory management program that actively monitors the user behavior and pre-loads frequently used programs to un-used memory. Thus when you need a program, it will be loaded very quickly than in XP based based systems.
Another specialty is that this allows other routine programs such as defragmenter and Windows defender to run when you are not actively using your computer.
Thus by utilizing most of the available memory, your system would be better responsive and faster in loading programs.
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Swillis here,
I believe that Super-Fetch is robbing me of available RAM as it anticipates WRONGLY what I intend to do. It causes what seem like a lack of system resources (RAM) problems such as this list of things that stop in Internet Explorer:
1. Menu Bar which I selected ON disappears.
2. Can’t activate Menu Bar with ALT.
3. Can’t check or uncheck the already checked Menu Bar under IE7’s Tools.
4. Can’t activate menus with right-click of mouse; some left-clicks won’t work either.
5. Can’t drag URL in address line to desktop.
6. Can’t open new windows with Mouse or Ctrl+N.
7. Can’t launch Task Manager (to stop programs
to get RAM back). Yes, I’m the admin.
8. Save or Save As… options don’t appear in
closing file widget.
9. Text may not appear in open tabs that say DONE.
10. Mouse tracks slowly.
You will notice that some of these things are what I must do to close tabs/windows while trying to save where I left off, so that I may recover RAM. After I do, it generally works fine, but sometimes
leaves with without the Menu Bar functions.
A few fixes to the Menu Bar problems: This is a known bug in XP in that it may open a window without displaying the Menus.
I’ve come up with a work around that is a Registry Edit (search for ITBar7Layout and DELETE the one under the Web Brower;
restart IE; don’t worry, it’ll write itself again and will work–for a while).
Shutting down and sometimes restarting will usually recover the functions, but sometimes I must still do the edit in the Registry.
I believe something is robbing my RAM resources (3 GIG on a dual-Quad machine running Vista Home Premium) and all I can figure is that Super-Fetch is holding it hostage thinking I want to
open Office 2007 or the Media Center after I might have closed either one.
If this assumption is so, how can I turn off, or reduce what Super-Fetch allocates to its cache?
Thanks!
Swillis
Hi Swills,
You are absolutely right. Now many people are staying away from Vista because of these problems.
I’ll post about it later.
Have a nice day!
I figured out how to turn Super-Fetch off.
START: MSCONFIG
under Services you can uncheck Super-Fetch
When I did, I found that I could (at the same time):
Run Windows Media Center watching CNN
Run Windows Media Player playing an MP3 file
Open TWO IE7 Windows
and in ONE of those two IE7 Windows could have 47 tabs open before I encountered the RAM errors I listed in the earlier post.
I ran some updates suggested by Microsoft and gave Super-Fetch another five days of trial, and gave up after the same problems eventually occurred.
Maybe they’ll get it right, but not yet.
BTW, I’ve tried reading the security code three times and just can’t seem to read it well enough. Is it case sensitive?
Swillis
[...] Microsoft has already implemented SuperFetch in Windows XP SP2. This means Superfetch is not new to Windows vista as ealier described. You can enable Superfetch in Windows XP SP2. [...]
Hi Swills,
Have you tried VistaReady Boost of your awesome system ?
Do you find it helping ?
Just want to ask someone.
PS: I’m unable to answer your other question.
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