Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and spyware-cleaning suspects, there's an interesting section on disabling Windows' prefetch ...

"prefetch" is basically a system service that is *supposed* to speed up access to selected applications by maintaining a db of your apps and PRE LOADING elements that allow them to load faster. Kind ...

This new technical paper titled “AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time” is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a ...

Windows File Analyzer will help you decode & analyze the Thumbnail Database, Prefetch folder, Shortcuts, Index.DAT, and Recycle Bin for forensic analysis. We took it for a spin and can say that it is ...

High-performance processors employ hardware data prefetching to reduce the negative performance impact of large main memory latencies. An effective prefetching mechanism can improve cache hit rate ...

Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and other Chromium browsers should soon see speed improvements on Window 11. A recent contribution to Chromium expanded the Application Launch Prefetch range (APLF) ...

In this article, we will discuss the MUI and PF files in Windows computers. Both MUI and PF are file extensions. These files are located in the root directory of the Windows OS. In the Windows ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...

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Google explains how it uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch search results, improving loading speeds on Chrome browsers. Google preloads top search results to speed up page load times using the ...