Hey folks need to know if anyone has any advice on what is happening to me .
I have used recuva for a while and not noticed this before .
I did a normal scan on C:drive and on looking into what is in an "excellent state" to recover i noticed loads of pictures that i havent taken , they seem to be screenshots of random stuff i have been browsing online , random youtube videos , shoes etc and also other things that ive never seen before .
What could be causing this ? Is this some kind of error with windows 7 that its randomly taking screenshots of what im doing , how could this be and how do i stop it ?
Would really appreciate some help from experienced IT people . Thanks .
The images being found have been cached there by your browser 'pre-loading' (or pre-fetching) them.
Most modern browsers do this, they look at links on a webpage you are visiting and 'pre-load' images etc. from those linked pages so they will open faster if you do go there.
So even if you never click those links images from them can get saved to your drive in the browsers cache.
The browser usually removes them later (when you close it) without you even noticing that they were there.
But of course a file recovery programme can see that they have been there at some time and then later removed.
You can turn off this pre-loading behaviour in your browser settings.