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Computer Geekery
Sep. 22nd, 2006 07:49 pmMy mother-in-law has been having computer problems for the last two weeks - her computer would lock up and require rebooting when trying to edit JPEG files (it would also try to open Word documents with her graphics editor, but that was a much easier fix - just reset the association for .DOC files). She's working on a book, and this has been really frustrating her. My FIL and I have been trading email all day trying to fix the problem.
After checking for free disk space, defragmenting the drive, looking through the HiJackThis log, checking for viruses and spyware, he found the source of the problem earlier this evening: 216,000+ temporary files. Delete all of them, and everything works much better.
This got me looking around at the documentation for the Disk Cleanup Tool. It can be set up to automatically remove the temporary files (and any of the other common cleanup activities) via directions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246/en-us which I have now also done to my computer, and will most likely do to a number of work computers.
After checking for free disk space, defragmenting the drive, looking through the HiJackThis log, checking for viruses and spyware, he found the source of the problem earlier this evening: 216,000+ temporary files. Delete all of them, and everything works much better.
This got me looking around at the documentation for the Disk Cleanup Tool. It can be set up to automatically remove the temporary files (and any of the other common cleanup activities) via directions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246/en-us which I have now also done to my computer, and will most likely do to a number of work computers.
