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| Endorphin Luminary  1185 Posts 3/00 |  Posted - Mar 26 2005 : 3:36AMI recently realized that my hard drive has much less space available on it than I would like. After some searching I see that WINDOWS/TEMP has about a gig worth of files in it, but I suspect they have no real purpose. I am half tempted to just delete them all, but thought I'd check first. Should I be cautious of deleting files from the TEMP folder? What about folders in the TEMP folder? Thanks. +1 for laissez faire... OH!..and FREE THE WEED!!! [Link] |
| VirginSurgeon Member LA, CA 23 Posts 3/05 | Posted - Mar 26 2005 : 4:36AM [Link] |
| oatmeal Meat Popsicle Seeking Beauty 1738 Posts 8/04 | Posted - Mar 26 2005 : 10:11AM Check your internet cache size, there's no need for it to be 10% of your hard drive, I have mine set at 40MB. [Link] |
| cv Member My reviews[/url] 594 Posts 7/03 | Posted - Mar 26 2005 : 1:46PM Generally, I switch the directory view to a list, then sort by date. Anything more than a month or two old is generally tossed. My Mac at home (running OS X) doesn't have this garbage-collecting tendency, but then again I'm not running a mail server, print server, or web server (the latter can generate huge log files if your site is halfway popular). I'll periodically check the /tmp and /var/tmp directories, and I have a shell script that blows away system and personal caches and cleans logs. Good luck. [Link] |
| Endorphin Luminary 1185 Posts 3/00 | Posted - Mar 27 2005 : 3:04AM oatmeal, I downloaded ccleaner, but am a bit wary of using it. I downloaded adaware once and ended up destroying a computer with it. +1 for laissez faire... OH!..and FREE THE WEED!!! [Link] |
| petemurphy Member 226 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Apr 1 2005 : 1:50AM What the heck is up with that? Did I dump the wrong thing? Don't dumped files stay dumped? Is there some sort of book for the clueless that I should be reading? [Link] |
| petemurphy Member 226 Posts 8/01 | Posted - Apr 1 2005 : 2:10AM I usually blame this declining performance on the "other half" of the computer, which is Mrs. Murphy's half - pass protected, God bless XP - where I can't go in and dump cookies or temp files. She told me the password before, a year ago, but now I've forgotten it. I hate to ask her for it. Do I hafta? My half is not pass protected. Did I mention that Mrs. Murphy is offended by porn? Adaware seems to clean both halves. Spybot and e-Trust AV don't seem to, but I don't know if they do. Our computer vendor, the expert, goes over my head so fast, and he disapproves of porn, plus he has a "proven personality defect" that makes him unable to associate with mere mortals. He always charges $1875 for last year's model. I helped my friend, a prominent local attorney who is even more computer illiterate than I am, go to Wal-Mart and purchase the $599 special (many more features than last year's model) and hooked it up and had him on the Net in a couple of hours, so I'm at least as knowledgeable as the average marsupial. [Link] |
| kicker_f1 Member USA 436 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Apr 3 2005 : 3:32AM I have SystemWork powered by Norton and that gets rid of all traces and junk. In addition to that I have system mechanic which does the same. Thanks. [Link] |
| Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Apr 3 2005 : 1:53PM [Link] |
| oatmeal Meat Popsicle Seeking Beauty 1738 Posts 8/04 | Posted - Apr 3 2005 : 5:46PM I've found ccleaner to be stable and safe but check out what it does and feel comfortable before letting it clean your system. It has tons of options so it can be as thorough or as lightweight as you want. [Link] |
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