I first learnt about this Prefetch/SuperFetch stuff when I bought The Ultimate Troubleshooter from the answersthatwork.com website. Having read your article I can see SuperFetch is simply the Vista equivalent of Prefetch.

In my view, whether you buy a PC or a laptop, you should not go for anything less than 4GB of RAM if you want to run Vista and even then it won’t be as fast as my Acer XP laptop which has only 1.5GB of RAM.

I also think than on Vista, just as you say it, it is absolutely paramount to kill permanently any background program that you really do not need. I use The Ultimate Troubleshooter for that, but, if you don’t want to pay the money, you can always go the answersthatwork.com website and check out their Task List page which I guess has 50% or so of what TUT has. It is not as important on XP, but on Vista !!

I’ve added your article to my list of technical references.

Thanks for writing it.
I.S.