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04-10-2010, 02:27 AM
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Keep your C drive clear of unwanted files
I am by no means a computer expert.
My C drive always seem to be full all 8 GB of it and it kept on sending me warnings to clear all the unnecessary files on the C drive.
I did not have the faintest idea what to do about it until I called an expert computer technician.
First of all he reformatted my windows and the he gave me an expert tip on how to keep the C drive clear of all the unwanted files which seem to collect on your C drive when you are browsing the net and chatting.
Here is what he told me to do.
Press Start. Press run. type prefetch in the window and press ok
Any files that you see come up you simply delete the files
You do this twice only the 2nd time you type %temp% and delete all the files there as well.
Then you go to the recycle bin and delete those files as well.
You do this every day or every 2nd day.
I am happy to report that my computer has never run so smoothly before.
Last edited by Sea Biscuit; 04-10-2010 at 02:33 AM.
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04-10-2010, 02:35 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
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LOL - He gave you good advice but did not tell you what you were doing or why.
Essentially, Prefetch was Microsoft's bright idea to load programs faster.
Whenever a program loads, there are certain things that have to happen. Short version is that the proper resources must be allocated to the program.
So, Microsoft's genius idea was to note what a program needs to do upon loading and (basically) prepare those resources for the program.
Unfortunately, Windows occasionally corrupts the file for a given program (or the program changes with a new upgrade) and suddenly the program will not run well or possibly not at all.
Funny thing was when I read the title of your post I thought it had to do with the sheer volume of data files. I did a full virus scan of my primary computer the other day. There were over three million files.
Regards,
Dave Schwartz
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04-10-2010, 02:45 AM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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it's a good tip......... kill them and then reboot........... don't do it if any programs are open..........
I do it when something slows to a crawl
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04-10-2010, 02:45 AM
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Dave Thanks for the response.
I don't think I had a problem of sheer volume of data files.
Since I started doing this my video quality to see horse races has improved 100% and the the computer seems to run faster whenever I try to open files.
Before my horse racing video was stop and go and the computer was generally very sluggish.
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04-10-2010, 09:50 AM
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LOSER
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: san marcos, ca,
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cannot get passed CFDAF5.temp and it was created this morning. Thanks in advance
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04-10-2010, 10:08 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
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Every time a program runs it will create a new prefetch file.
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04-10-2010, 10:09 AM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Originally Posted by racko
cannot get passed CFDAF5.temp and it was created this morning. Thanks in advance
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I had the same problem with a couple of files. I clicked on properties for that file and hide it. Then exited run and started over again. You won't get rid of that file, but you can go back to getting rid of the rest of them. It did seem to speed things up when I was done.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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04-10-2010, 10:11 AM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Correct me if I am wrong, It is the temp files that are slowing things down.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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04-10-2010, 10:15 AM
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"Prefetch" is a feature of the Firefox and Google browsers as well. They try to out-guess you as to which page(s) you might click next, and download them in advance just in case.
Disabling this feature will increase system resources to some degree.
cybernetnews.com/helpful-tip-disable-firefox-prefetching/
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04-10-2010, 10:27 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
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What's next fo MS.....prerollover? prespeak?  
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04-10-2010, 10:58 AM
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I have great success running free software "CrapCleaner" every week
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04-10-2010, 11:34 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
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I run CC at least once a day - sometimes 2-3 times.
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04-10-2010, 12:36 PM
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Racing Form Detective
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Originally Posted by Tom
I run CC at least once a day - sometimes 2-3 times.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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04-10-2010, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom
I run CC at least once a day - sometimes 2-3 times.
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I just installed Crap cleaner.
It installed ok but when I open it, it opens just for a second and then closes by itself.
Any help you can give me how to run this program would be appreciated.
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