Windows 10 Prefetch and Superfetch

Question

OK, I recently upgraded by cloning my OS (Win 10 Pro) from an HDD to an SSD.

I have been reading articles about prefetch and superfetch and how they are with SSd's.

Well, I believe that Superfetch was indeed disabled by Win 10 when it realized I was now on an SSD.

Being that there is NO Superfetch anywhere in the Services.

Now, as to Prefetch, set the registry key to disabled and restarted. Items still kept showing up in the prefetch folder. This even after I had deleted them, or at least the one the system allowed me to do so to.

Again, left it disabled in registry and restarted after the deletion. And as soon as I could went to the prefetch folder and right before my eyes items kept appearing.

So, I decided to at least maybe benefit from the fact it seems hell bent on using prefetch and set value in registry to 2 so as to only prefetch boot related items.

Anyone here know what the you know what is going on here? Because from what I can see, YES Windows 10 did disable Superfetch. But seems a bit iffy on prefetch. Any help here would be great.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi BlackDragon5

Microsoft did not disable SuperFetch, they renamed SuperFetch to SysMain approx.1 year ago - check for that in Services to see if it is running on your PC . . .

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Answer 2

Thanks! 

Appears to have taken care of it. After disable prefetch in registry and the service you told about, all are now disabled. 

Problem solved. 

Thanks.