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XP Disc Clean - partial clean
Name: bobevan Date: March 30, 2005 at 07:26:05 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1 gig ram
Comment:
When I use the disc clean facility and clean up "compress old files " and Web Client/Publisher Temp Files" I have always assumed that they were cleaned up. However, if I run the utility again the same volumes of files still show that they can be cleaned up to free up disc space. Why is this?
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: April 1, 2005 at 02:45:28 Pacific
Reply:
Bob Evans, Windows uses temp files for a variety of things such as the cache. Key to the whole deal is the word temp in the title. So long as they're just 'temp' files, hard to see why there'd be any problem in just deleting them first. I have mine set to delete on shutdown and reboot daily. HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
Name: bobevan Date: April 1, 2005 at 11:11:01 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Ed. Sorry to be a pain but despite looking at Microsoft Help I cannot see how to delete temporary files at shutdown and startup. How do you do that?
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