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” ใน C:
2. From the เริ่ม menu, select “Run..-” & type “gpedit.msc“-
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Computer Configuration” and double click again on “Shutdown” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add“- “Browse“, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file and click “เปิด“-
5. คลิก “ตกลง“- “นำมาใช้” and “ตกลง” once again to exit.
6. From the เริ่ม menu, select “Run..-” and type “devmgmt.msc“-
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers“
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “คุณสมบัติ“-
9. Select the “การตั้งค่าขั้นสูง” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect‘ & คลิก “ตกลง“-
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel“, select “คุณสมบัติ” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer-
