A Windows Prefetch file consists of one file header and multiple file sections with different content. Not all content has an obvious forensic value. As far as have been possible to ascertain, there ...

In this Digital Forensics task, I used tools like exiftool, prefetch parser, and jumplist explorer to explore artifacts in LNK files, prefetch files, and jump lists. C:\Users\albert\AppData (hidden ...

Prefetch files are a feature of Windows that was first introduced in Windows XP. They are files that store information about the applications and files that are frequently accessed by your computer.

Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and spyware-cleaning suspects, there's an interesting section on disabling Windows' prefetch ...

Every time you run an application in your PC, a Prefetch file that contains information about the files loaded by the application is created by the Windows operating system. The information in the ...