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Old 06-15-2004, 01:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What's with Windows prefetch?

I know what it does, but lately there have been programs in the prefetch trying to access the 'net.

I don't know what this is all about, the latest file is named SS_CDT_SETUP.EXE-15849267.pf. My firewall picked it up.

What should I do about this? Or is it normal? Spybot didn't pick anything up.
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Old 06-15-2004, 02:14 PM   #2 (permalink)
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From the google searches I did, looks like that proggy is spyware/malware/adware and should be deleted.
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Old 06-15-2004, 04:46 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I have 70 files in the prefetch, but which files are supposed to be in there?
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Old 06-15-2004, 05:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Prefetch is part of the operating system. You delete it and it will be recreated. It is kind of like a cache for your accessed sites and files.

Deleting them will have no effect on your system, except for maybe a little speed initially as it recreates the things 'pre-fetched'

TweakXP has a tool to automatically clear your pre-fetch...but some wise souls discourage cleaning the prefetch too often.....this is after all an OS cache.

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Old 06-16-2004, 05:27 AM   #5 (permalink)
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jBear's right, prefetch is the OS's ability to "pre" load frequently accessed programs to make those programs start faster, but that does suck up RAM to do that.

If your havving a problem with low resources, you can turn off pre-fetch, which frees up resources, but makes programs run slower. THe details on how to do it are here:

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1796.aspx
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Old 06-16-2004, 06:40 AM   #6 (permalink)
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To clarify the part re: spyware, it sounds like you have spyware and it just happens to be prefetched in the OS like many programs that are run. I don't believe that prefetch is the source of your problem, instead it's the spyware. If you clean the spyware, the "prefetch" part should go away too.

Here's a thread re: spyware removal:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=48137
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Old 01-22-2005, 03:25 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I have a quite similar problem, but the file is named DVD CREATIVE TRAY.EXE-1A855F0E.pf I've tried almost every spyware cleaner (ad-aware SE personal, Spybot, Bazooka and Spy Sweeper) But none of them seem to help.

It makes my computer so slow that even opening the firefox takes few minutes. I can make my computer temporarily faster by pressing ctrl + alt + del and closing all 3 or 4 processes called "Dvd creative tray.exe", but after some 30 or 40 minutes they all start again and my computer becomes slow again Does anyone know how to fix this?
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