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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by wrs on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:09PM (#28281275)
I can’t find a reference now, but I believe Windows did (does?) have a page fault tracer that would preload from disk the pages that are observed to be needed. I can’t remember if this was just at boot time or for app launches too.
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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by _carbyau_ on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:43PM (#28283479)
I think you are referring to Windows Superfetch.

It helps to load the required pages into memory fast to enhance application launch times and then usual memory paging handles the rest of keeping required paths in memory.

Google says Windows\Prefetch is the directory for the cache. You could look here and see if there are any references to applications rather than just windows boot stuff.

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