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 על 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...” & סוּג “Gpedit.msc“.
3. Double click “הגדרות Windows” 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“.
5. לחץ “בְּסֵדֶר“, “לִפְנוֹת” ו “בְּסֵדֶר” once again to exit.
6. From the הַתחָלָה menu, select “Run...” and type “devmgmt.msc“.
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers“
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “מאפיינים“.
9. Select the “הגדרות מתקדמות” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect‘ & נְקִישָׁה “בְּסֵדֶר“.
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel“, select “מאפיינים” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
