Restore from xp windows\Prefetch\WINWORD.EXE-2......5.pf OR WINRAR.EXE-3......8.pf

Question

Are there known ways to extract/restore data from a .pf prefetch file like

c:\windows(XP)\Prefetch\WINWORD.EXE-2......5.pf      (office/word 2007)

Or

Prefetch\WINRAR.EXE-3......8.pf 

We thought it was saved but accidentally clicked 'cancel' on writing changes to the winrar archive...

Answer 1

Sorry, but prefetch files only contain a trace of the file accesses made by a program, not the contents of the accesses themselves. Also only the first 10 seconds of an application's activity is traced, as it's meant only to speed up loading times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher