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Editor to share with you what prefetch refers to the folder, I believe that most people do not know much about it, so share this article for your reference, I hope you will learn a lot after reading this article, let's go to understand it!

Prefetch is a pre-read folder, which is used to store the pre-read information of files that have been accessed by the system. The extension is PF. The reason why the Prefetch folder is created automatically is to speed up the process of system startup.

Pre-read the folder. It is used to store the pre-read information of the files that have been accessed by the system, with the extension PF. The Prefetch folder is created automatically to speed up the system startup process. XP's pre-read data should be deleted periodically, and the best way in Vista is to leave it alone.

The reason why Windows automatically creates the Prefetch folder is to speed up the process of system startup. Windows will automatically record every program that runs at startup and use this data to speed up the next startup.

There are thousands of programs in the computer, even if there is a program with the same name, it is not surprising that the system will automatically add a "suffix" to the program name. this is why some file names are followed by a series of numbers, letters and. The reason for the extension of pf.

Over time, there will naturally be a lot of garbage in the Prefetch folder, especially if the user often changes the computer configuration, the process information previously recorded by the system will be useless. You can empty the Prefetch folder because Windows will be recreated automatically.

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