Comments on: Enable or Disable SysMain or Prefetch for SSD in Windows 11

By: Rudolf Zorn

Rudolf Zorn — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:57:00 +0000

In reply to SANIC.

They may, when installed on one. I have my Win10 installed on a PCI NVME SSD (Not SATA), from a boot stick. I thought I had to disable the Prefetch service, but I’m not sure, maybe I forgot. However, now I was looking into services, and guess what, it was running. Could be related to some driver updates (Intel Chipset / Management…), or Fall Creators update, or…nevermind, it can’t hurt to look sometimes.

By: Gabriel Hernandez

Gabriel Hernandez — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:51:00 +0000

Thanks for this article, I acquired a Kingston SSD for my laptop and I’m following customers guidance on how to increase life-time of SSD disk.
In another article I read these other services can increase your SSD performance
Deactivate file indexing (Windows Search)
Deactivate System Restore
Deactivate disk shutdown (in advanced energy management options)

By: Anuradha Prasad

Anuradha Prasad — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:30:00 +0000

Hi Team,
I had disabled superfetch service and updated registry entry to set it to 0 in Windows 10 version 1703. Though whenever I clone another VM out of base image(where superfetch is disabled) these properties are not retained in newly created VM.

The superfetch service is running with registry key set back to 3 on newly created vm.

Could you please help.

Thanks,
Anuradha

By: Negro

Negro — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:17:00 +0000

In reply to Ameer Al-hindi.

it only confused you because you are stupid.
superfetch and prefetch are too different things and therefor use different parameters.
to enable superfetch for boot you set it to 1 just like the guide says

By: Bluesdealer

Bluesdealer — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:32:00 +0000

In reply to SANIC. LOL except it decided to ignore mine. Windows 10 had prefetch and superfetch enabled even though I was using an SSD. Kept crashing within the first minute of loading until I found this article and changed it.