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Re: WHAT'S UP WITH YAHOO?

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11/25/2005 10:24 AM
Dai H.	Re: WHAT'S UP WITH YAHOO? Steve, you might try this freeware prog. called CCleaner ("Crap Cleaner")--helps you clean out temporary files, memory dump files etc. My PC seemed a bit faster booting up after. http://www.ccleaner.com/ watch out that you don't delete something you want though.

11/28/2005 9:29 AM

With the Zone Alarm Pro firewall there is a Cache Cleaner function that is thorough and convenient.

Or if you are using DOS-based windows like W98 you sometimes benefit by deleting the temporary internet files first using the browser itself, then restarting the computer and then *shut down* again but select *restart in MSDOS mode*.
Windows will be shut down and you will be at the DOS prompt C:\WINDOWS\

type in DELTREE TEMPOR~1, hit Enter and it will ask you if you want to delete all the files and subfolders from C:\WINDOWS\TEMPOR~1. Enter *Y* and it may take a while (lots less time than a defrag though) but your C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\ folder will be eradicated along with everything it contained.

In this case I think this is about equivalent to what you might have accomplished by defragmentation, seems to me it would be a good idea to remove the TEMPOR~1 folder before a defrag too.

Anyway, once you restart Windows, whenever there is no C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\ folder, as soon as you get online and IE needs a place for its temporary files, it will automatically create a fresh new folder for you.
TEMPOR~1 is just the 8-character DOS abbreviation for Temporary Internet Files since DOS does not like long file names (LFN) including spaces.

Also in W98, if you back up the C: volume by xxcopying to a spare or slave partition, afterward you can delete x:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ from the backup copy as well as x:\Windows\Win386.swp which will reduce the size of the uncompressed backup copy without hampering its ability to function when you do need to boot to the *x:* volume in the future, or xxcopy from *x:* to a blank formatted partition to recover the backed-up system.

Mike

11/29/2005 5:30 PM

Thanks. We are running fine again. I tried the Crap Cleaner with great results. It found files we were searching for (to get rid of) but couldn't find.

so defragging the computer got Yahoo mail up and running again, and using that CC sped things up considerably. I know we need more memory. We have plenty of hard drive space.

Earlier this year we lost our original motherboard to a damned parasite that slowly shut us down.

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