What is the functionality of Prefetch in windows xP?

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According to Windows Reference:

One of the features introduced in Windows XP is called Prefetch wherein Windows caches the boot files and the most recently used application files so as to make Booting the system faster and load the previously loaded applications faster for the simple reason its been cached.

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