SuperFetch in Windows Vista
I found this blog post via Sam Gentile, on how to enable SuperFetch in Windows Vista.
SuperFetch is a new memory scheme that allows Vista to use external memory devices as extensions to the system memory. So you can plug in a USB memory Stick with a gigabyte, and automatically have Vista use this as extra memory, thereby boosting system performance.
I saw Jim Allchin demo it at PDC, and it was very impressive. Good to see these kinds of things coming.
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on April 13th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Hi Kristian, I just stopped by your blog… and I’m sorry but I don’t really see how the ability to dynamically add or remove a swap disk can be something new? I mean — the memory stick is nothing but a very was swap disk, isn’t it?
on April 13th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Hi Kristian, I just stopped by your blog… and I’m sorry but I don’t really see how the ability to dynamically add or remove a swap disk can be something new? I mean — the memory stick is nothing but a very fast swap disk, isn’t it?
I might be wrong — I know nothing about Vista apart from what you’ve written here…