Prefetch

Well personally NO

and why, well prefetcher helps shorten boot and program loading times and as part of the memory managment side of XP is a good thing BUT it will consume some memory so that is why some users with low memory systems do disable the prefetcher but if you have 512mb or more I wouldnt bother JUST remember to periodically clean the contents of the folder out as old uninstalled apps will still be listed in their.

microsofts blurb on it http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307498

 

Thank You brother Xflat yep on advice to get more memory.


Also as MS say in that KB disabling is helpful in a fault finding situation.