The Superfetch feature on Vista machines is a nice little application that essentially tries to make opening applications faster. What SuperFetch does is preload your system memory with all the applications you use often so that when you launch these applications they should open faster.

Now we all remember back in the days when you could open an application, then go make lunch to come back and find it just opened.  Now things aren’t that bad nowdays but you may still want to open applications faster and that is what SuperFetch does.

SuperFetch is automatically enabled on a Vista computer but if you want to disable it you must do the following;

  • Open up services (type services.msc in start menu)
  • Scroll down and double click on SuperFetch
  • Click the general tab
  • Scroll down to the startup type dropdown
  • Select disabled
  • Click apply and ok
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