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| Answer» <html><body><p>If you never hear from me again, you'll know that it didn't work. lol. Gonna dump them all and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/see-630247" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEE">SEE</a> what happens. ThanksRockey - If you're reading this then all went well and you will have your pc under control.<br/><br/>Post back pleaseOhhh Rockey - you've got me worried - please don't say I've stuffed you like a turkey.<br/><br/>Post back please!!!!Dusty - All's well. So far everything is working. Just busy here. temp is empty.Rockey - that's the best news since sliced bread. Now you will have the confidence to delete .temp files again.<br/><br/>I think you are running Internet Explorer. If that's fact there is another file which you should delete occasionally. When you surf the net IE puts an entry into a file of every site you visit. This file just increases in size ad nauseum. Try to locate the file:<br/><br/>C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT<br/><br/>(or something close to that but must be Index.dat) and delete it. Note that it's History.IE5 even if you are running IE.6). When I first cottoned onto this one it was over 8Mb & had entries going back almost two years..<br/><br/>ALL index.dat files can be deleted but you <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/might-560522" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MIGHT">MIGHT</a> have to do so in Safe mode.<br/><br/>I was having a beer and the penny dropped that you are using Win.98se whereas I was quoting the file name from XP. The file above is 98se and cannot be accessed from Windows but can be from Dos so just restart in Dos and all will be ok. Mebbe you'd like to check the file size before deleting (dir it). I've edited this post.<br/><br/>Good luck, I enjoyed our little exchange<br/><br/>Dusty-Not sure I am qualified to go into DOS. I might really mess something up. I know how to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/get-11812" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GET">GET</a> there but I might never get out of there. I am not gonna venture there today. Busy here.Rockey - OK - enjoy yourself.Just thought people may want to know a little shortcut I have on my PC. Open up Notepad (Start > Accessories > Notepad) or any other text-editor, then go to File > Open. Make sure you are looking at All Files in the lowermost dropdown box, and then navigate to the c:\ drive. Open up Autoexec.bat and add this line:<br/> Code: <a>[Select]</a>deltree /y c:\windows\temp\ >nul<br/>This simply clears the Temp folder every <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/time-19467" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TIME">TIME</a> you start your PC. The "/y" switch simply confirms every "Do you want to Delete?" prompt and the ">nul" just stops screeds of text appearing. Code: <a>[Select]</a>deltree /y c:\windows\temp\ >nul<br/><br/>You are aware that this will cause problems with program installs that reboot the PC? These <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/programs-239435" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROGRAMS">PROGRAMS</a> usually load stuff into the c:\windows\temp directory with intent to use them on the restart, and are then supposed to clean up after themselves (few do) once the install is complete.<br/><br/>Better idea is to build a .bat file that you can put on the desktop or in your System Tools subfolder in Accessories on the All Programs menu, and have that include things like emptying the temp directory, history, cache, and/or recycle bin directories. Another thing is to remake the folders you DELTREE'd, for example the above code line should be accompanied:<br/><br/> Code: <a>[Select]</a>deltree /y c:\windows\temp\ >nul:<br/>md c:\windows\temp<br/><br/>This prevents the system from stumbling on an absent environment object next time a temp file is made...</p></body></html> | |