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 ...

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 ...

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.

This script utilizes the RtlDecompressBufferEx function from the same library to decompress the Prefetch files. It takes two arguments: the input Prefetch file and the output file. The script reads ...

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 ...