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, tip “del c:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes) & tasarruf etmek “ntosboot.bat” içinde C:
2. From the Başlangıç menu, select “Run...” & tip “Gpedit.msc“.
3. Double click “Windows Settings” under “Bilgisayar yapılandırması” and double click again on “Kapat” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add“- “Göz atmak“, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file and click “Açık“.
5. Tıklayın “TAMAM“- “Uygula” Ve “TAMAM” once again to exit.
6. From the Başlangıç menu, select “Run...” and type “devmgmt.msc“.
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers“
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “Özellikler“.
9. Select the “Gelişmiş Ayarlar” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect‘ & tıklamak “TAMAM“.
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel“, select “Özellikler” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
