Microsoft recently claimed Longhorn will be faster than XP. The Inquirer shows how you can have that speed boost in Windows XP too.


The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetcher

you will notice in windows xp

EnablePrefetcher = 3 and you will notice in windows longhorn
EnableSuperfetch = 1

Well, guess what? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in windows xp and get the same speed.

Source: The Inquirer

In case you haven't realized, you are on your own if you decide to apply this patch. Who knows what can happen given that it is Microsoft Windows after all. You have been warned.