Cleaning prefetch on laptop plz help

revenge2 · 05-26-2007, 02:04 AM

Hello there im not sure of which to delete and which not to delete, Could someone please advise me on which items to get rid off?

there are so many!! if i delete all.( which a particlular site said to do so..)

will my "security" be under threat? and other important programs like acer power ...etc, touch pad...

peterhuang913 · 05-26-2007, 02:13 AM

prefetch are just 'speedup' files. IMO they are all safe to delete but the programs might be slow to load the first couple times.

revenge2 · 05-26-2007, 02:21 AM

Ok sweet az.. is there anyway that i can make a bakup of the current files in it? or is that not neccesory

Win2kpatcher · 05-26-2007, 02:45 AM

Just delete all the files in prefetch it wond hurt anything. I do this about as often as I clean out all my temp files and all that crap that slows down the unit.

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revenge2 Super Techie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: earth Posts: 325	Cleaning prefetch on laptop plz help Hello there im not sure of which to delete and which not to delete, Could someone please advise me on which items to get rid off? there are so many!! if i delete all.( which a particlular site said to do so..) will my "security" be under threat? and other important programs like acer power ...etc, touch pad... Last edited by revenge2; 05-26-2007 at 02:09 AM.

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revenge2 Super Techie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: earth Posts: 325	Re: Cleaning prefetch on laptop plz help Ok sweet az.. is there anyway that i can make a bakup of the current files in it? or is that not neccesory Last edited by revenge2; 05-26-2007 at 02:29 AM.

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Win2kpatcher Master Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2,144	Re: Cleaning prefetch on laptop plz help Just delete all the files in prefetch it wond hurt anything. I do this about as often as I clean out all my temp files and all that crap that slows down the unit.

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