prefetch

[Gan]

Norton Personal Firewall alerts me quite often that various
attempts are being made for inbound connections related to
Windows\Prefetch - the latest was for svchost.exe and I've
noticed that before. (I'm running XP Professional.)

What are the Prefetch files? I'm neither a power user, nor
a novice, but like to understand what is being dumped into
my pc from the Internet.

[Black Baptist]

"Gan" > wrote in news:032e01c30d89$81624e90
:

> Norton Personal Firewall alerts me quite often that various
> attempts are being made for inbound connections related to
> Windows\Prefetch - the latest was for svchost.exe and I've
> noticed that before. (I'm running XP Professional.)
>
> What are the Prefetch files? I'm neither a power user, nor
> a novice, but like to understand what is being dumped into
> my pc from the Internet.
>
>

Prefetch files are so windows can load apps faster each file is info on each
exe you've run.

[Kelly]

Hi Gan,

Prefetch Folder in Windows XP Explained Here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_p.htm#xp_prefetch

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"Gan" > wrote in message
...
> Norton Personal Firewall alerts me quite often that various
> attempts are being made for inbound connections related to
> Windows\Prefetch - the latest was for svchost.exe and I've
> noticed that before. (I'm running XP Professional.)
>
> What are the Prefetch files? I'm neither a power user, nor
> a novice, but like to understand what is being dumped into
> my pc from the Internet.
>