Temp Files

[The Reverend XP]

Thorsten is close in his reply ~ does have a name,it's
called a tidly. Tidly is what is known as a wild card and
can be used in a search process where the name of the file
is not know but other parameters are specified. * is
another wild card. A good program for deleting such temp
files is JV16 Power Tools. It's free and will also help
you clean the garbage out of your registry. Good luck.

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

"The Reverend XP" > wrote in message

> Thorsten is close in his reply ~ does have a name,it's
> called a tidly. Tidly is what is known as a wild card and
> can be used in a search process where the name of the file
> is not know but other parameters are specified. * is
> another wild card. A good program for deleting such temp
> files is JV16 Power Tools. It's free and will also help
> you clean the garbage out of your registry. Good luck.

It's called a tilde.

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[Gerald Fuller]

That is amusing. The symbol ~ is not a "tidly", it is a "tilda"

But that is not very important in the overall scheme of XP, I think.

A novice user of XP (Home)

Gene


"The Reverend XP" > wrote in message
...
> Thorsten is close in his reply ~ does have a name,it's
> called a tidly. Tidly is what is known as a wild card and
> can be used in a search process where the name of the file
> is not know but other parameters are specified. * is
> another wild card. A good program for deleting such temp
> files is JV16 Power Tools. It's free and will also help
> you clean the garbage out of your registry. Good luck.

[Gerald Fuller]

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...


> It's called a tilde.


That is correct. Glad I admitted to being a novice! <G>

Gene

[baker]

It is called a "tilde" because it is a Spanish symbol used to change the
pronunciation of a letter. They have been using it for many, many
centuries. Somebody decided to use it in computer terms, but it is still
called a "tilde". :-)