My maintenance utility tells me that my prefetch folder files have been deleted.

Original title: prefetch files

My maintenance utility tells me that files in my prefetch folder have been deleted... what it means and I can get them back or do I need to?  Never heard of these before

These things are scams if you paid for it. They do nothing good for you. I recommend that you stop using it because it does not speed up your computer. In particular the registry functions.

Don't worry about the prefetch files. They will reform.

The Prefetch files are there to make your programs start faster. In fact, I doubt that you can measure the amount of time with a stopwatch.

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