Vista - Searches folder

Holy crap!

I just found a folder under my Desktop "Owner" folder entitled
"Searches" and it's filled with hundreds of sub-folders totalling
mega-mega-gigs of data.

This hogs up a lot of space! Am I supposed to keep this? I can see
some use for it occasionally, but for me it's not that valuable. Have
others found it to be of use? Can I "tune" it so that it deletes the
oldest files after a certain amount of time has elapsed? I tried to
manually delete -- no effect.

Help anyone?

If you right-click the Searches folder under C:\Users\(Your Name), and
choose Properties, on the General tab, just how big is it space-wise,
looking at "Size:"?

"46erjoe" <46erjoe@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Holy crap!
>
> I just found a folder under my Desktop "Owner" folder entitled
> "Searches" and it's filled with hundreds of sub-folders totalling
> mega-mega-gigs of data.
>
> This hogs up a lot of space! Am I supposed to keep this? I can see
> some use for it occasionally, but for me it's not that valuable. Have
> others found it to be of use? Can I "tune" it so that it deletes the
> oldest files after a certain amount of time has elapsed? I tried to
> manually delete -- no effect.
>
> Help anyone?

The things you see in the Searches folder aren't sub-folders - they are
actually executing a search when you open them. So the files you seeing are
other files on your hard-drive that are found in the search, so I wouldn't
recommend deleting them!

The actual size of the Searches folder should be tiny - unless someone has
copied large amounts of data into that folder.

Dave Wood

"dean-dean" <dean-dean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If you right-click the Searches folder under C:\Users\(Your Name), and
> choose Properties, on the General tab, just how big is it space-wise,
> looking at "Size:"?
>
> "46erjoe" <46erjoe@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:rs9u33di8psvah2bk1or9i874b4u94ufmg@4ax.com...
>> Holy crap!
>>
>> I just found a folder under my Desktop "Owner" folder entitled
>> "Searches" and it's filled with hundreds of sub-folders totalling
>> mega-mega-gigs of data.
>>
>> This hogs up a lot of space! Am I supposed to keep this? I can see
>> some use for it occasionally, but for me it's not that valuable. Have
>> others found it to be of use? Can I "tune" it so that it deletes the
>> oldest files after a certain amount of time has elapsed? I tried to
>> manually delete -- no effect.
>>
>> Help anyone?
>