So you belive that ReadyBoost and SuperFetch are connected and we need both the folders installed?

EDIT

Okay so I installed the files and registry settings. Had some trouble wih TrustedInstaller with two of the folders but I already knew how to get around that.

services.msc tells me superfetch is running, how can I make sure though? Harddrive activity seems the same however ram usage is quite a bit higher.

EDIT AGAIN

So I double checked services.msc and statuptype is set to Automatic. However the service did not start and when I try to start it I get:

Windows could not start the SuperFetch service on Local computer.
Error 1083: The executable program thats this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.

Where did I go wrong?

Check your Windows\Prefetch folder and if its populating it w/ files that end in .pf then its working. And yes I believe you need everything installed, but like I said I am not 100% sure on this. I plan on getting ReadyBoost working next so I have no intention of spending time trying to separate them. Let me know if it works for you. Oh and you can also check the Event Viewer and make sure there are no system errors relating to superfetch.

Ahhhh, I'm an idiot Forgot you need to edit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost and add sysmain to LocalSystemNetworkRestricted

Sorry! Was late when i finished last night.

I would be really interested to see if you actually got it working. The fact that pf files are being created is not evidence of this however...any chance you can run some benchmarks? Eitherway, awesome effort! :>

No, not yet, I may leave that to someone else lol. Any suggestions on proper benchmarking?

In the mean time, still having trouble with ReadyBoost and nto sure where to go at the moment. When I add rdyboost as a LowerFilter like it is in Win7, R2 refuses to boot with an endless BSOD loop and I have to switch to last-known-good.

Decided to focus on something else again and come back to it later, and just got winsat.exe to run and start a formal assesment, but the codecs included in Win7 are not in R2 which are needed for the media assesment. When I attempt to register the codec dll files i am presented with an error message. Frustrating, but making progress at least.

Okay so I added sysmain in the registry and it's working now atleast from what I can tell. My prefetch folder is being pupulated by .pf files. Can't say anything about the performance because I just added the service. Maybe I should let it run for a few days and report back to you if I feel any difference?

Otherwise please give a suggestion on how to benchmark it.

It seems to work just fine. Like the Windows 7 one works (not even nearly as agressive as vista one was). I was also looking into this readyboost. I didnt manage to make any BSOD though but I didnt get it working either. I'll look more into it later today.

Sounds like you are making a very good progress getting SuperFetch working! Keep it up!

SuperFetch, besides creating .pf files in %SystemRoot%\Prefetch, also preloads data in unused memory in order to speed-up the starting of applications. If you take a look at the Physical Memory (MB) section in the Performance tab of the Task Manager, the value of Free should be (near) 0 MB after having the computer turned on for some time. Is that also the case in your SuperFetch-enabled Windows 2008 R2 Workstation?

Well I don't have much installed on this machine yet other than VMWare and 64bit Firefox but currently I have 800MB+ free out of 4GB. I'll keep ym eye on it over the next few days.

I've got quite lot installed... I got 3.9gb free out of 6gb. So Im not sure if its working good for me?