Notepad

[Guest]

I went into accessories and into notepad above paint, well I fnd it is replaced with th
Accessibility.it pops up saying accessibility wizard. when I go into search and type in notepad
I can find it there. but I also notice on May 4 there is a several files pf file prefetch
I was afraid this was the sessor virus. I done a virusscan and no infected files found
Does anyone know what prefetch means, and how I can change the notepad icon bac
to notepad, I want this to work when I click on the icon it is accessibility wizard. help
thanks someone out there

 

[Menno Hershberger]

I went into accessories and into notepad above paint, well I fnd it is
replaced with the Accessibility.it pops up saying accessibility
wizard. when I go into search and type in notepad, I can find it
there. but I also notice on May 4 there is a several files pf file
prefetch, I was afraid this was the sessor virus. I done a virusscan
and no infected files found. Does anyone know what prefetch means, and
how I can change the notepad icon back to notepad, I want this to work
when I click on the icon it is accessibility wizard. help. thanks
someone out there.

Right click the notepad icon and click properties. The "target" should be
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\notepad.exe. Or possible just
c:\windows\notepad.exe. If it isn't, then change it to that. That is where
notepad.exe is supposed to be located. If you searched for it and found it,
assure that that is where it is.
You maight look in the windows\prefetch folder and see if it's listed
incorrectly in there. If it, just delete it. Anything deleted in the
prefetch folder will regenerate anyway. It's just supposed to be a way of
speeding things up (I think)

 

[Kelly]

The Prefetcher component in Windows XP is part of the Memory Manager, and
helps to shorten the amount of time it takes to start Windows and programs.

Windows XP "monitors" itself and notices which applications are launched
frequently. It gathers information about these applications and what they
access with the launch and stores this information in the prefetch folder.

It then uses this information to "optimize" access to these files so that
they launch faster.

Once every three days, by default, Windows XP will perform a partial
defragmentation and adjust the layout of the disk based upon current use.
The files to be moved are written in the file Layout.ini (found in the
Prefetch directory under the System Root directory).

More information here on the Prefetch Folder in Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_p.htm#xp_prefetch