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How to increase system system performance
Excel does the same thing.
A temp file is created for each workbook opened. When the workbook is closed the temp file is deleted.............most timesg With a workbook open browse to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel You will find an ~123x456.xar file Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:12:34 +0100, "Gordon" wrote: "Curious" wrote in message ... I have never seen any evidence or even ever heard of Windows creating any "Temp" files on any drive when loading an application. If you run Excel it loads excel.exe in memory and then loads or creates a new .xls spreadsheet file in memory there are no other/temp files created. If you open a Word Document, Word will create a temp copy of the file in the same folder that the original document exists. That's one of the main reasons why users are advised NOT to open Word documents direct from removable media.... |
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How to increase system system performance
Excel does the same thing.
A temp file is created for each workbook opened. When the workbook is closed the temp file is deleted.............most timesg With a workbook open browse to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel You will find an ~123x456.xar file Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:12:34 +0100, "Gordon" wrote: "Curious" wrote in message ... I have never seen any evidence or even ever heard of Windows creating any "Temp" files on any drive when loading an application. If you run Excel it loads excel.exe in memory and then loads or creates a new .xls spreadsheet file in memory there are no other/temp files created. If you open a Word Document, Word will create a temp copy of the file in the same folder that the original document exists. That's one of the main reasons why users are advised NOT to open Word documents direct from removable media.... |
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How to increase system system performance
You are correct. I should not have used an Office product as an example of
what happens with any Windows based application since the Office applications themselves create temp files as you describe. "Gord Dibben" gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Excel does the same thing. A temp file is created for each workbook opened. When the workbook is closed the temp file is deleted.............most timesg With a workbook open browse to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel You will find an ~123x456.xar file Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:12:34 +0100, "Gordon" wrote: "Curious" wrote in message ... I have never seen any evidence or even ever heard of Windows creating any "Temp" files on any drive when loading an application. If you run Excel it loads excel.exe in memory and then loads or creates a new .xls spreadsheet file in memory there are no other/temp files created. If you open a Word Document, Word will create a temp copy of the file in the same folder that the original document exists. That's one of the main reasons why users are advised NOT to open Word documents direct from removable media.... |
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How to increase system system performance
You are correct. I should not have used an Office product as an example of
what happens with any Windows based application since the Office applications themselves create temp files as you describe. "Gord Dibben" gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Excel does the same thing. A temp file is created for each workbook opened. When the workbook is closed the temp file is deleted.............most timesg With a workbook open browse to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel You will find an ~123x456.xar file Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:12:34 +0100, "Gordon" wrote: "Curious" wrote in message ... I have never seen any evidence or even ever heard of Windows creating any "Temp" files on any drive when loading an application. If you run Excel it loads excel.exe in memory and then loads or creates a new .xls spreadsheet file in memory there are no other/temp files created. If you open a Word Document, Word will create a temp copy of the file in the same folder that the original document exists. That's one of the main reasons why users are advised NOT to open Word documents direct from removable media.... |
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How to increase system system performance
"Tae Song" wrote in message ... "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... Tae Song wrote: I thought I would share this with you all, a few little tricks to boost Windows performance. If you have a spare USB flash drive or you are willing to get a cheap say 1GB flash drive. First we plug in the flash drive. Go to Disk Manager and assign it a drive letter, like Z: (this is just to get it out of the way and optional) Go to Advanced system settings, Evironment variables. Change the Temp variable under User to Z:\ (I didn't see any point creating folders, but that's optional) Change the Temp variable under System variable to Z:\ This will cut down on I/O traffic to the hard drive. Starting an app like Word, would cause the HD to read the program into memory while at the same time writing into the drive, temporary files. This causes an I/O queue to form and degrade Windows performance. By off loading some of the I/O traffic to another storage device, the hard drive read/write head doesn't have to move around as much either. All performance gains. I don't think so!! There will be a performance LOSS, in large part due to the much longer write times to a flash drive. Also, it's generally a poor idea to have so many continuous writes to a flash drive, as flash drives have a more limited number of write cycles. snip rest of this post You don't need an extremely high write speed. A lot of times temp files are just empty files, many are 0 bytes. Almost all are under 700KB. Even at a write speed of of say a low of 5MB/s is still only a fraction of a sec. This keeps the read/write head from thrashing about creating and updating file records. And just to up the ante, I enabled disk compression on the USB drives to reduce the size of the writes. Reducing the size of the writes won't affect the time it takes and certainly will not alter the fact that Flash technology has a limited number of write cycles. If you're using it as a temp drive, you are ensuring that a flash drive will fail *sooner* rather than later. Flash drives aren't appropriate for filesystem utility use. They can only be relied on for convenient transfer of data that exists elsewhere. |
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How to increase system system performance
"Tae Song" wrote in message ... "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... Tae Song wrote: I thought I would share this with you all, a few little tricks to boost Windows performance. If you have a spare USB flash drive or you are willing to get a cheap say 1GB flash drive. First we plug in the flash drive. Go to Disk Manager and assign it a drive letter, like Z: (this is just to get it out of the way and optional) Go to Advanced system settings, Evironment variables. Change the Temp variable under User to Z:\ (I didn't see any point creating folders, but that's optional) Change the Temp variable under System variable to Z:\ This will cut down on I/O traffic to the hard drive. Starting an app like Word, would cause the HD to read the program into memory while at the same time writing into the drive, temporary files. This causes an I/O queue to form and degrade Windows performance. By off loading some of the I/O traffic to another storage device, the hard drive read/write head doesn't have to move around as much either. All performance gains. I don't think so!! There will be a performance LOSS, in large part due to the much longer write times to a flash drive. Also, it's generally a poor idea to have so many continuous writes to a flash drive, as flash drives have a more limited number of write cycles. snip rest of this post You don't need an extremely high write speed. A lot of times temp files are just empty files, many are 0 bytes. Almost all are under 700KB. Even at a write speed of of say a low of 5MB/s is still only a fraction of a sec. This keeps the read/write head from thrashing about creating and updating file records. And just to up the ante, I enabled disk compression on the USB drives to reduce the size of the writes. Reducing the size of the writes won't affect the time it takes and certainly will not alter the fact that Flash technology has a limited number of write cycles. If you're using it as a temp drive, you are ensuring that a flash drive will fail *sooner* rather than later. Flash drives aren't appropriate for filesystem utility use. They can only be relied on for convenient transfer of data that exists elsewhere. |
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