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I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? |
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pjp wrote:
I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2006/02...lder-properly/ "The really easy way: Create a Scheduled Task to have your system clean out your Temp folder and perform other cleanup chores automatically. If you poke around in the Scheduled Tasks folder, you’ll see that this option is available with a wizard’s help." I think I'd rather clean it out manually. And I regularly do. In the Explorer bar, enter %temp% to get there. Paul |
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pjp wrote:
I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? CCleaner |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:27:16 -0300 "pjp"
wrote in article In article , I know numerous ways of cleaning it up. Point is, one shouldn't have to as programs should damn well cleanup after themselves. When I programmed you took pains to insure this was the case. Now it's like there's no pride in doing it right anymore. And on top of that it leaves a feeling the programmers are just plain incompetant or at best withlimited experience and were never taught "right". No wonder Windows has so many bugs, backdoors, etc. I agree, but sometimes programs terminate, for many reasons, before they can clean up the temp storage they allocated. My only caution about cleanup programs is that sometimes stuff left in temp folders is necessary on the next boot. Installation programs-- Windows Update is notorious--leave stuff in temp that gets accessed on the next boot. |
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pjp wrote:
I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? No, they don't. When you programmed, making economical use of resources was probably considered a lot more important than it generally is today. -- Mike Barnes Cheshire, England |
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"pjp" wrote in message
... I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? It is now just about money, and not pride. Very prevalent in the USA in most regards. The USA is becoming more of a ME society every day. Pride? About the only pride left is in about how much more money you are making. Seems like most people I see are not even aware of you, unless you get in their way. Lack of consideration or even awareness of others seems to become more absent every day. CCleaner is a good program , but if you need to reboot to finish an install, don't use it until after a fresh reboot. -- Buffalo |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:57:22 -0300, pjp wrote:
I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? That's correct -- they don't care. At least you _can_ empty that (and I do, every day, via my logon script). But Winsxs is much, much bigger, and the best advice I've heard is that it should not be messed with. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:05:31 -0400, Paul wrote:
I think I'd rather clean it out manually. And I regularly do. In the Explorer bar, enter %temp% to get there. Paul Or just hit the Windows key, type %TMP%, and hit Enter. (No, that's not a typo. TMP seems to have the same value as TEMP.) -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:16:00 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:57:22 -0300, pjp wrote: I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? Ccleaner Not to be unduly harsh, but: what a silly suggestion. If writing a script is too much effort, and just opening the folder and deleting everything is too much effort, there's always hitting the Windows key and typing CLEANMGR. It never ceases to amaze me that people push third-party tools for things that can perfectly well be done with native Windows commands. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:44:39 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:
What I have done since XP is change the environment in system to point all temp/tmp files to C:\ temp. 99% of temp files go there and I can see what was happening. Very rarely do I find any files in the other temp folders And how, pray tell, does that address the OP's issue? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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In message , Stan Brown
writes: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:05:31 -0400, Paul wrote: I think I'd rather clean it out manually. And I regularly do. In the Explorer bar, enter %temp% to get there. Paul Or just hit the Windows key, type %TMP%, and hit Enter. (No, that's not a typo. TMP seems to have the same value as TEMP.) So it does (in XP anyway)! [I've just done a few experiments in a command box.] It certainly didn't always: in DOS (and I think the 9xs) they could be different. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf My daughter is appalled by it at all times, but you know you have to appal your 14-year-old daughter otherwise you're not doing your job as a father. - Richard Osman to Alison Graham, in Radio Times 2013-6-8 to 14 |
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In message , Charles
Lindbergh writes: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:39:18 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:16:00 -0600, Ken1943 wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:57:22 -0300, pjp wrote: I getting tired of the manual maintenance required. Can anyone tell me how one's supposed to keep a more or less empty "temp" folder when it appears IE leaves behind multipule "dat'xxxx'.tmp" files all the time. Geez, even installing a Gadget leaves behind a remnant file and way too many others including installers seem to do the same. When I programmed that was considered very sloppy programming so why isn't it ever fixed in some subsequent release? Do they just not care? Ccleaner Not to be unduly harsh, but: what a silly suggestion. If writing a script is too much effort, and just opening the folder and deleting everything is too much effort, there's always hitting the Windows key and typing CLEANMGR. It never ceases to amaze me that people push third-party tools for things that can perfectly well be done with native Windows commands. It never ceases to amaze me when people preface a harsh, condescending post with: "Not to be unduly harsh" or "With all due respect". Hey if it trips your trigger and makes you feel superior for a microsecond, by all means, continue to put your best antisocial foot forward. You may disagree with the method of presentation (I tend to agree with you on that), but he has a valid point that there _are_ many third-party tools (and advocates for them!) that do the same as existing Windows components. I didn't know CLEAMNGR, for example, though I think I may have come across it via the GUI route. Of course, C'Cleaner does (I _think_) a lot _more_ than that, but certainly that aspect of its functionality was indeed already there. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf My daughter is appalled by it at all times, but you know you have to appal your 14-year-old daughter otherwise you're not doing your job as a father. - Richard Osman to Alison Graham, in Radio Times 2013-6-8 to 14 |
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