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Old 02-23-2002, 02:08 PM
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Default Re: i just deleted 19,100 temp internet files

You can also adjust the amount of disk space you allow for Temp Internet files. The default is a percentage of your hard drive the bigger the hard drive the bigger the space is going to be. I've worked on system where they've had over 900 MB alocated for Temp Internet Files. What a waste of space.

If you have a high speed connect turn of caching altogether, why would you need it? If you're on dialup, then set your cache to say 30MB or less. Anything more is over kill.

I cache nothing so have nothing to delete. Loading and running third party software to do it for you is defeating your purpose. You're just loading more software into memory using resources, also setting up scheduled items uses resources as well. Replace one with another and you have acheived nothing.

Just a friendly suggestion on the scandisk defrag thing too if I may. The only time you need to run scandisk is when defrag will not run. The first 10% of defrag is actually checking your drive for errors, if there are none it will continue and defrag the hard drive, if it finds error's then it will tell you to run scandisk. Just a step saver in the ol maintenance arena.

Later guys.
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