Archive for the 'SuperFetch' Category
Microsoft Predicts The Future With Vista SuperFetch
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Work by Microsoft’s R&D group played a part in revamping Windows, a researcher said Friday, but not all the toil made it into Vista. Microsoft Research contributed to the SuperFetch effort, a feature within Vista that predicts which applications are used when, then pre-loads them so that they’re instantly available. "As part of a long [...]
How SuperFetch and ReadyBoost work together
Saturday, October 14th, 2006In order to make Windows Vista, with all of it new GUI enhancements, a success, Microsoft knew that it was going to have to figure out some ingenious ways to squeeze more performance out of the operating system and the currently available hardware technology. Along the way, they’ve even helped to spur a new hardware [...]
