- Purpose of Layout.INI?
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on October 4th, 2005
I have a 269 KB file C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini, which seems to
get changed regularly. It contains a long list of paths, and I'm
curious what this is used for? At a very brief glance, some of them,
like this one
C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTS\MY PICTURES\
don't exist on my system.
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Posted by Mak on October 4th, 2005
Google is your friend.
for instance:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...l/default.aspx
" To minimize seeking even further, every three days or so, during system
idle periods, the Task Scheduler organizes a list of files and directories
in the order that they are referenced during a boot or application start,
and stores the list in a file named \Windows\Prefech\Layout.ini "
The path that you listed does exist, use command prompt instead of explorer.
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:dh34k1pana5130vvi2tgnmdh0rf7nmnko4@4ax.com...
>I have a 269 KB file C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini, which seems to
> get changed regularly. It contains a long list of paths, and I'm
> curious what this is used for? At a very brief glance, some of them,
> like this one
> C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTS\MY PICTURES\
> don't exist on my system.
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on October 4th, 2005
"Mak" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>Google is your friend.
>for instance:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...l/default.aspx
>" To minimize seeking even further, every three days or so, during system
>idle periods, the Task Scheduler organizes a list of files and directories
>in the order that they are referenced during a boot or application start,
>and stores the list in a file named \Windows\Prefech\Layout.ini "
>
>The path that you listed does exist, use command prompt instead of explorer.
>
>"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
>news:dh34k1pana5130vvi2tgnmdh0rf7nmnko4@4ax.com.. .
>>I have a 269 KB file C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini, which seems to
>> get changed regularly. It contains a long list of paths, and I'm
>> curious what this is used for? At a very brief glance, some of them,
>> like this one
>> C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTS\MY PICTURES\
>> don't exist on my system.
Thanks, but I'm probably now more confused <g>. First, on a general
point, why is the Command Prompt showing directories I've long since
deleted? And how can layout.ini achieve the stated objective if it's
not up to date?
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
