Windows 10: Can I clear the Prefetch folder?

Hi,I have my old laptop and my new laptop. My old laptop gets barely usable so I was trying 5 days to clear it somehow just for fun.While exploring the Windows folder to find something useful or useless, I found the Prefetch folder. At first it was locked so I clicked Continue to see if it will let me in.On my old laptop there is 622 files and folders, and the folder itself weights about 200MB!. On my new laptop, it's only 16MB like nothing.At first I didn't want to get in here, so in the browser, searching "can I clear the Prefetch folder" doesn't give me any normal results. Everything was

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Clear Pagefile on Shutdown


I've been looking into clearing the pagefile, and I found the following steps at a somewhat dated webpage:

1. In the registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
2. Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown to the REG_DWORD value of 1.
3. Restart Windows.

I'm just wondering whether those steps are still valid, and, if so, does clearing the pagefile work as advertised?

 

10+ minutes waiting for Sign-In dialog.

Since the SFC tool failed to find any issues, the next step we would suggest is to perform a Disk Cleanup to speed up your computer's performance. To know more on how to perform this process, kindly click on this

link.

We also suggest clearing the contents of the Prefetch folder. This is where Windows stores the bootup files. Deleting what's in this folder will trigger the system to refresh the bootup process. Here are the steps:

• Right-click on the Windows icon on your home screen.
• Type prefetch then press Enter.
• Once you have the folder up, press Ctrl + A on your keyboard.
  
• Press Shift +Delete.
• Click on Yes.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Prefetch files

should i delete all the files in the prefetch folder in windows 10?