Bad Windows tweaks
The Internet is full of information, a lot of it wrong. This applies to the myriad of suggested tips that you find on how to make Windows run better. Several years ago, I wrote:
The Internet is full of suggested tweaks to Windows. Many of these get repeated over and over by various sites without anybody actually testing them. They also appear in books. They then assume some sort of canonical status without having much actual foundation. In fact, I have found many of them to be pretty useless and have discussed a few on other pages.
You can see a selection of some of the most common tweaking misinformation in a post at Lifehacker, Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths. It is surprising how persistent some of this bad advice is. Even supposed Windows experts who should know better repeat bad tips. For example, one bad tip that appears regularly concerns cleaning the prefetch cache. Ed Bott and others demolished this myth long ago but it just won’t die.
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