Disabling Superfetch on low memory PC?

[tmontney]

I just heard the idea of disabling superfetch on low memory PCs (that it would reduce hard drive thrashing and such; there is a lot of that going down on my laptop). The laptop is an old Acer Aspire 5315 (Celeron 1.7 GHz, 1 GB DDR2, 80 GB SATA 5,400 RPM) with Vista Basic. I'm trying to tweak and squeeze as much performance as I can out of it. I realize the basis behind superfetch (inb4 "disabling superfetch frees up memory") and why it uses up that memory. But would there be an exception for PCs with low memory (such as 1 GB)? I guess there's always testing but it'd be nice to know if someone knew this off the top of their head.

 

[Saga Lout]

It's far more likely to speed things up a bit if you deleted all the clutter being on the net drags in and make sure your memory is being used properly.