This new technical paper titled “AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time” is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a ...
Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and spyware-cleaning suspects, there's an interesting section on disabling Windows' prefetch ...
"prefetch" is basically a system service that is *supposed* to speed up access to selected applications by maintaining a db of your apps and PRE LOADING elements that allow them to load faster. Kind ...
Here's a quick summary of the PREFETCH and INF ploys I mentioned in a separate blog here. These are alternatives (or supplements) used by support scammers from India to the Event Viewer and ...
Windows File Analyzer will help you decode & analyze the Thumbnail Database, Prefetch folder, Shortcuts, Index.DAT, and Recycle Bin for forensic analysis. We took it for a spin and can say that it is ...
Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and other Chromium browsers should soon see speed improvements on Window 11. A recent contribution to Chromium expanded the Application Launch Prefetch range (APLF) ...
New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...
High-performance processors employ hardware data prefetching to reduce the negative performance impact of large main memory latencies. An effective prefetching mechanism can improve cache hit rate ...