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 메모장 .exe, 유형 “del c:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & save as “ntosboot.bat” ~에 기음:
2. From the 시작 menu, select “Run...” & 유형 “gpedit.msc“.
3. Double click “Windows 설정” under “컴퓨터 구성” and double click again on “일시 휴업” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “추가하다“, “먹다“, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file and click “열려 있는“.
5. 클릭 “좋아요“, “적용하다” 그리고 “좋아요” once again to exit.
6. From the 시작 menu, select “Run...” 그리고 유형 “devmgmt.msc“.
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers“
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “속성“.
9. Select the “고급 설정” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect‘ & 딸깍 하는 소리 “좋아요“.
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel“, select “속성” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.