Superfetch off but windows still caching in RAM

snadge · 11 Jan 2014 at 13:54

I have Superfetch off in windows yet it still seems to be caching into RAM... anyone know why this might be? I know there are options/switches in the registry that control this but I thought if the service was disabled it should not do it at all? - if I recall I used an SSD optimize program that set windows to cache programs only, but like I say its strange that its still doing so with Superfetch disabled...??

thanks

snadge · 11 Jan 2014 at 16:47

as you can see its not disabled....im just curious as to why its running at all when Superfetch service is off, I thought this controlled it.

Ive also read that Superfetch can reduce the life expectancy of your SSD

snadge · 11 Jan 2014 at 16:55

spoffle said:
Why would you want to turn it off though? THat's the more important issue.

the question I asked was "why is caching still been performed when the superfetch service is disabled" - can anyone answer this?

I did not want answers as to why it should be left on, i know why it should be left on, I just found it like that before when looking through the services list, as I said Ive read that Superfetch can reduce the life expectancy of your SSD, I cant see how this is true if its reading from the SSD to load into memory, anyway, like I say, I just found it like this and thought it was odd as to why the service was disabled but windows was still caching into RAM so wondered if anyone could explain why...as I cant

snadge · 11 Jan 2014 at 17:00

spoffle said:
I WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS BUT I WILL DEMAND ANSWERS FOR MY OWN QUESTIONS! LORD SNADGE HAS SPOKEN.

I said:

as you can see its not disabled....Im just curious as to why its running at all when Superfetch service is off, I thought this controlled it.

Ive also read that Superfetch can reduce the life expectancy of your SSD

you said:

Why would you want to turn it off though? THat's the more important issue.

you go on about how it should not be off anyway... ive already been told that and knew that anyway, Iam just wanting to know why its running if the service isnt?

oh and i answered your question in my post!