temp folders

harryb649

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Are there any temp folders in vista?? I am use to cleaning out 6 temp folders in XP about every 7 - 10 days. Search shows up nothing. If there is none it means one less cleaning to do each week.
 

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Thanks --I didn't realize that disk cleanup would clean up the temp folders. Learning something everyday. Just trying to keep the computer clean.
 

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I don't know exactly what you are calling temp folders because there are many more JUNK folders in Vista than there were in XP, which had a ton more than 98 or ME.

I wrote a batch file to dump all the junk folders in my Vista PC and it's about thirty lines long, with one folder per line.

Yes, "Disk Cleanup" does a pretty good job of getting rid of junk files, but it doesn't get rig of them all.

In my own cleanup batch file, I included things like my AV Quarantine folder and the Prefetch folder. There will be a separate set of temp folders for each user.

On a recent cleanup of a customers PC, I removed over 30,000 junk files with my little XPCleanup.bat program.Then ran Spybot S&D and got rid of 176 pieces of spyware. Keeping a PC clean and safe isn't the easiest thing in the world, but it's definitely DO'able.

Shadow :cool:
 

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Hey Bare Foot Kid, the link seems to go to a page I don't have permission for.
 

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    8Gb DDR2 G.Skill 6400
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    Creative X-Fi
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    Intel C2Q 9550 Yorkfield
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    ASUS P5Q Pro
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    8GB Dominator 8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX ATI 1GB 4870 XXX
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD 7-1
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    1x 47" LCD HDMI & 2x 26" LCD HDMI
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    1920x1080P & 1920x1200
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    2x 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache WD Caviar Black
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    Corsair 620HX
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    CM Cosmos RC-1000
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    Tuniq Tower 120, 2x 140mm and 3x 120mm case fans
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    HP Enhansed Multimedia
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Thank You, that was a very good tutorial.
It's also information that's been around for a while on other forums.
So, it's not new, but always worth repeating.....thanks again.

Just like NO security program can find and remove every piece of malware,
NO cleanup program is going to get every piece of junk on your hard drive.
I use my own VIClnup.bat program to remove selected junk files, then I run
"Disk Cleanup" and then "Easy Cleaner 2" to remove "Unnecessary files".
When I get done, my HD is about as clean as it can be.

I always suggest to my customers, that they do a Weekly Maintenance routine that I give them. That will keep a person's hard drive clean, neat and running smoothly.

Cheers mates!
The Shadow :cool:
 

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    MSI K9N Platinum
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    4 gigs DDR2-800
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    WinFast
    Sound Card
    Integrated
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19" Envision LCD
    Hard Drives
    2 Maxtor 160 gig SATA2
    1 Seagate 200 gig SATA2
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    Antec Earthwatts 650
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    Pac Man
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    13 fans
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    Generic
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    MS-Digital
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    Cable-5 meg
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