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Posted: February 11, 2001 Written by: Dustin "TimmyC" Jones Read Ahead Windows supports a neat little feature called Read Ahead. Read Ahead tries to predict what files will be called next while loading a program. Now, this is a good idea on paper, but unfortunately, Windows sets this value to 64k, which makes it a tad useless, considering the massive size of files that most modern programs are using. However, you can change it by going through the registry. Open up Regedit (Start, Run, "regedit" (hit OK)) and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]. From there you should see a setting that says ReadAheadThreshold. If you don't have it, no worries; just download this small .reg file (unzip it, and then simply double click the readahead.reg file) and it will merge the correct value in for you. To create it manually, right click in the key window and select new binary value. Type in ReadAheadThreshold (Case sensitive). Now, right click on that setting and select "modify". You should see a dialogue box similar to the below picture, except empty. Now just add 00 00 20 00 into it and click OK.  |
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