First of all, this tweak only apply to those who only have one HDD on their primary IDE channel (nothing else on device 0 or 1) and a CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE channel. Each time you boot Windows XP, there’s an updated file called NTOSBOOT-*.pf who appears in your prefetch directory (SystemRoot%Prefetch) and there’s no need to erease any other files as the new prefetch option in XP really improves loading time of installed programs.
Follow the following steps:
1. Open notepad.exe, type “del c:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” ב ג:
2. From the הַתחָלָה menu, select “Run..ו” & type “Gpedit.msc“ו
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “תצורת מחשב” and double click again on “הַשׁבָּתָה” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add“- “לְדַפדֵף“, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file and click “לִפְתוֹחַ“ו
5. לחץ “בְּסֵדֶר“- “לִפְנוֹת” and “בְּסֵדֶר” once again to exit.
6. From the הַתחָלָה menu, select “Run..ו” and type “devmgmt.msc“ו
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers“
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “מאפיינים“ו
9. Select the “Advanced Settings” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect‘ & נְקִישָׁה “בְּסֵדֶר“ו
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel“, select “מאפיינים” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computerו
