First of all, this tweak only apply to those who only have one Ổ cứng 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” TRONG C:
2. From the Bắt đầu menu, select “Run...” & type “Gpedit.msc“.
3. Double click “Cài đặt Windows” under “Cấu hình máy tính” and double click again on “Tắt máy” in the right window.
4. In the new window, click “add“Thì “Duyệt“, locate your “ntosboot.bat” file and click “Mở“.
5. Nhấp vào “ĐƯỢC RỒI“Thì “Áp dụng” and “ĐƯỢC RỒI” once again to exit.
6. From the Bắt đầu menu, select “Run...” and type “devmgmt.msc“.
7. Double click on “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers“
8. Right click on “Primary IDE Channel” and select “Của cải“.
9. Select the “Cài đặt nâng cao” tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘none’ instead of ‘autodetect‘ & Nhấp “ĐƯỢC RỒI“.
10. Right click on “Secondary IDE channel“, select “Của cải” and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
