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I went into services and disk defragmenter was set to manual but had not been started I had to right click and click start to turn it on. should it be set to manual or automatic?

HI Enableprefetcher and EnableSuperprefetcher are both set to 3 EnablebootTrace is set to 0 though I don't know if that is right. Also how can I find out if the windows defrag is disabled?

After the 2nd run you should get a message that the system is optimized. At this point the defrag.exe runs ans optimizes the boot. contact the IT admin and ask him which GPOs they apply and he should try to optimize (run them asynchronously if possible, don't use logon scripts) them. Hi well it doesn't say that for me and if I change the Sysmain start value back to the default I cant get past the first reboot it tells me it gave up waiting for prefetcher. Could there be something more that needs to be turned on? I have even tried this http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/283057-solution-gave-up-waiting-win7rtm-physical-prefetcher-problem.html but it doesn't seem to fix it. Its also where I found that changing Sysmain start value is pointless.

Hi I used to be able to run this but now I get the "gave up waiting for virtual prefetcher after 300 seconds" message after the first boot. I managed to get all 6 reboots by changing the SysMain reg key start value to 0 but have now learnt that by doing that it just basically runs through the boots but is a waste of time because it doesn't do anything after you change it. Does anyone think they can help?