Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Prefetcher" in English language version.
Secondly, one can specify a /prefetch:#flag when launching an app. [...] Some sites have guessed that this switch turns on prefetching, and suggest that you add that to every executable you care about [...]
Both guesses are incorrect. The /prefetch:# flag is looked at by the OS when we create the process -- however, it has one (and only one) purpose. We add the passed number to the hash. Why? [~snip~]
For one thing, XP will just re-create that data anyway; secondly, it trims the files anyway if there's ever more than 128 of them so that it doesn't needlessly consume space.
