Today we’ll take a look at the memory pre-fetching feature. This feature was introduced over 20 years ago in Windows XP. Does it still make sense to use it?
As we mentioned earlier, memory pre-fetching was introduced in Windows XP. How does it work?
Windows analyzes the programs that run with the system and creates special *.pf files in the \Windows\Prefetch folder.
These small files contain information about a given application and how often it is launched. PF files contain:
