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SuperFetch in Windows Vista

Posted in Microsoft,Misc,PDC,Windows Vista by Kristian Kristensen on the April 8th, 2006

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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    1. Martin said,

      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?


    2. 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… :-)

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