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what does this do?

Started by S A A B , May 24 2005 02:58 PM

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S A A B

Posted 24 May 2005 - 02:58 PM

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Open Run and type Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks and Enter.

what does this do?

thanks

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gerryf

Posted 24 May 2005 - 06:26 PM

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http://www.tek-tips....qs.cfm?fid=4518

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S A A B

Posted 25 May 2005 - 07:38 AM

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Thanks for your reply but what does it do?

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gerryf

Posted 25 May 2005 - 07:46 AM

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Theoretically, what it does is rebuild layout.ini from the information in the windows prefetch folder and and rearranges files according to the newly generated layout.ini.

What this does is move files around on your drive so that windows functions and most used programs are moved to the faster part of the disk and also defragmented.

It also idles background tasks so that they do not get in the way.

The end result is supposed to be faster boots. Windows Defrag should achieve the same effect, plus more.