Refuse to follow blindly! Various misunderstandings in the column number Vista optimization

For http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/15470.html ">vista This hardware consumption king, I believe we have already heard." So many so-called Vista optimization cheats. Actually teach us how to "lose Weight" for vista. And as everyone's attention to Vista continues to warm up, more and more media, also put these skills, moved to the magazine. After such a "packaging", many friends will be regarded as a "classic." But, you know what? Many of these so-called optimization cheats are misleading. If blindly blind and then without hesitation, it is likely to damage the operating system itself, and thus affect our normal use. So today, the author listed a few of the common mistakes in the Vista optimization, and everyone together to analyze it.

Misunderstanding one. Drive backup directory can be deleted

* Misleading index: ★★★

* Target path: X:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository

If you are a user who often uses Vista, you must have witnessed the powerful hardware support capabilities of Vista. It is no exaggeration to say that if it is not particularly advanced, or particularly unpopular hardware, access to Vista, can be automatically recognized by the operating system, and rarely require users to manually install the driver. In fact, this achievement is inseparable from the large drive-bank of Vista, which is nearly 1.3 GB size. So, in some cheats, there is "if you have installed the required hardware, you may wish to remove it, you can save 1.3 GB space ..." Such a discourse, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 The large "body" of the Filerepository folder

So is it really true? In fact, the problem is in the phrase "already installed the required hardware." In fact, although a lot of hardware will be issued by the driver CD, but for simple hardware such as u disk, we still find it hard to match the driver. If you really have deleted this folder, then when a new USB drive is plugged into the system, Vista will not be recognized. Even if the so-called "universal driver" is installed, it will be useless, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Cannot install U disk drive

Misunderstanding two. Regular emptying of Superprefetch

* Misleading index: ★★★★★

* Target path: X:\Windows\Prefetch

About Prefetch (pre-reading), I believe you are already very familiar with. It was an iconic feature in the XP era. By automatically recording every running program, XP can speed up its startup by prefetch the next time the program starts. However, the technology also has a disadvantage. That is, as computer use time increases, the contents of the Prefetch folder will be more and more. This not only takes up a lot of disk space, but also results in slower XP searching for read-only data. As a result, many articles suggest that this folder should be emptied periodically.