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2. Prefetcher - Wikipedia

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   The Prefetcher is a component of Microsoft Windows which was introduced in Windows XP. [1] It is a component of the Memory Manager that can speed up the Windows boot process and shorten the amount of time it takes to start up programs. It accomplishes this by caching files that are needed by an application to RAM as the application is launched ...

3. ReadyBoost - Wikipedia

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   Windows 7 supports multiple flash drives for ReadyBoost, so performance improvement similar to RAID 0 can be expected. The ReadyBoost algorithm was improved in Windows 7, resulting in better performance. One experiment showed reading of flash memory up to 5–10 times faster than Windows Vista due to higher hit rate. [citation needed]

4. Microsoft PowerToys - Wikipedia

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   Super-Fast User Switcher allowed Fast User Switching or logging on to a different account using the Windows key+Q combination without requiring to switch to the logon screen. Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel could mount an ISO image as a virtual drive . [ 17 ]

5. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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   On system with BIOS firmware, the BIOS invokes MBR boot code from a hard disk drive at startup. The MBR boot code and the VBR boot code are OS-specific. In Microsoft Windows, the MBR boot code tries to find an active partition (the MBR is only 512 bytes), then executes the VBR boot code of an active partition.

6. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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   When a user is logging on to Windows, the startup sound is played, the shell (usually EXPLORER.EXE) is loaded from the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file, and startup items are loaded. In all versions of Windows 9x except ME, it is also possible to load Windows by booting to a DOS prompt and typing "win".

7. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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   Windows 10 is a major release of ... Windows 10 S also contains a faster initial setup ... OEMs are no longer required to make Secure Boot settings user ...