GOFER Rants

Rants & Reviews About Home Biz

2007-10-13

Getting Rid of Junk and Temporary Files

 Getting Rid of Junk and Temporary Files

More about that in just a moment...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Maintenance Tidbit
2. Quote of the Week
3. Gofer's Rant
4. Featured Article
5. Peek At Next Issue
6. Live Training Conferences
7. Special Offer
8. Your Homework

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Maintenance Tidbit:
Last time, we mentioned the fact you needed to backup and defrag your registry
entries because they are just as important as data backups.  Hopefully you did
some investigation with your favorite search engines and found a product that
will work for you and your computer. 

NOTE:
If you have some information to share or questions regarding our "Maintenance
Tidbit", please contact us right away!  We will gladly spend additional time
explaining something of interest and may even post your comments right here in
our "Team Blog" with a link back to one of your web pages.

Ever Wonder Where and How Many Temporary Files You Have?
Use Windows Explorer and do a search on your computer for "*.tmp" without
the quotes. We believe you will be surprised as the massive number of files
you find and the many directories they are contained within!

Just yesterday after running cleanxp the night before on one of our computers
we discovered 91 .tmp files had been created within 5 different directories in
just under 7 hours!  If we have been doing some heavy-duty surfing, CCleaner
will easily get rid of 80-90Meg of junk files.

CCleaner ( mentioned is an earlier blog posting ) does a great job of getting rid
of a great number of .tmp files but there are several other suffixes Windows
uses when creating temporary files such as *.pf*.  We use that format with
multiple wildcards to make sure we delete all the different varieties of Windows
"prefetch" files.

The batch file we have been talking about in our Featured Article has sample
entries there to delete all the *.tmp files from a single directory; naturally you
can copy that code and change the directory to get rid of temporary files on
another directory. That's the beauty of how that batch file or script works to
keep your machine cleaned up and gets rid of all the junk files!  Customize it to
to your heart's content

So pay attention as we provide more & more details of exactly how the script
works and it many varied tasks it is designed to do easily for you every time
you ask it to run!

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QUOTE:
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they
are the role model for being alive
- Gilda Radner

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GOFER's Rant - I'm Not Gonna Do It All For Ya!
We can't tell you the number of times we have been contacted by a new downline
member expecting us to do their setup work for them!

If you are in any of our downlines, you better get those words flushed from your
vocabulary! We didn't take you to raise much less do all the
work for you.

If you don't possess any more self-reliance and respect for other people than that, don't
let the door hit ya where the dog should have bit ya!

On the other hand...if you have done some research about a particular subject such as
how to create a campaign in a traffic exchange and still don't understand some portion
of that and need help, we'll be right here as that's what a team leader is supposed to do -
help others on the team so all become more productive.

But if you don't have the time or didn't take the time to research what you need to do...
maybe haven't even read the instructions we provided to you, then you are not being a
functional and productive team member.

we will help anyone who shows some enthusiasm and initiative to learn new things and
put them into practice. We call that teamwork and team support which we will gladly do.

So as we've just got through reading an email from a new downline member wanting us
to do their setup work within a particular program since they don't have time to do that,
yes we are steamed and just about to reach the boiling point!

This individual hasn't even opened much less responded to our welcome email nor any
of the program setup info we've sent them, so since you know who you are, you better
grab ahold of your shoulders and pull REAL hard! That way just maybe some daylight
might reach your brain cavity!

Mr/Ms new person, read and investigate what we've said in the emails we've sent you!
They all contain information to help you become productive with that program. You just
gotta get off your butt and do some work! If that's too much work for you, we suggest
you delete your account in that program and get off the internet, you're too stupid to be
here!

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Featured Article:  Getting Rid of Junk and Temporary Files
Hopefully in our last issue, you took advantage of the download link provided for Fred
Langa's cleanup/backup script.

If you missed it for some reason, click here to download it right now before you proceed
any further.

From now on, we are talking about getting rid of junk/temp files and creating a backup
of your important data on a Windows XP computer. The download talks about machines
using operating systems older than XP, so yes, you gotta do some additional reading and
investigative work yourself.

Let's look at the sample code to get rid of any temporary files (*.tmp) in a specific
directory. Your computer should have this folder and be using it if you are using a
Windows XP computer.

By the way, even someone like ourselves who have been running this script for several
years can learn a new location now and then where a temp file is being saved.

Normally a temp file is just that and the majority of them are not intended to be kept
and updated forever - they are just taking up space you can use for worthwhile business
data.

Here's the sample code to delete temp files as described and shown in the cleanxp.bat
file included in the zipped file you downloaded earlier:

:: the 2 colons column 1 & 2 of a line indicates this line is a comment
:: next lines switch to C: drive, change to first folder where you want
:: to delete files
cd "C:Documents and Settings[username]Local SettingsTemp"
:: edit the line above with the correct path and name of the first
:: directory/folder you want to clean out ([username] matches the
:: username you use when you log onto your computer - there can be
:: several users names defined depending on how many people use your
:: computer)!
::
:: XP/2k ONLY:
:: if you're using WinXP/2K, REMOVE the two colons from the front of
:: the "del /p /s /f *.*" line below
:: del /p /s /f *.*
:: After you run CleanXP and are sure that you're deleting the correct
:: files, you can change the /p to /q for faster, no-prompt deletions


You will need to read through the above code and make sure you understand what it
is going to delete for you. Bottom line, anything that is saved in your
"Local SettingsTemp" directory is NOT needed to do any work you need - its just
Windows' method of storing little (and sometimes not so little) pieces of data it needs.
That is why you see "*.*' (without the quotes) following the /f in the delete line above
(del /p /s /f *.*) *.* means delete ALL files you find in the Temp directory. Follow
the instructions given within the script code to make it execute faster (no prompts to
delete each file)!

If you want to know exactly what each of the parms following the "/" does in that
delete command line, you can find the location of that information in the readme.txt
file included in the zipped file you downloaded earlier.

Hang on! We've just begun...

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Next Time:
We will get into deeper discussion about Fred's data backup script.  Also we will start
detailed discussion with each individual step of the backup process plus a few tips we
learned along the way!

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Live Training Conferences - Do You Really Care?
You can always learn so much more info when you attend a live, interactive conference
or workshop. We dare you to try one of our conferences listed here! Just follow the
instructions to download the conference software and we urge you to start your week
by attending our Sunday General Conference at 9:30PM eastern time. Heck you never
know what you are missing...and YOU could win a great prize as well!

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Your Homework:
1. Using Windows Explorer, do a search on your computer for all temporary files (*.tmp)
and save a file showing all the directories where the temporary files are located.
2. Read and understand the script code (commands) as shown above.

If you are having any trouble or don't understand something, we are available to assist
you get it started the right way. Heck, we can even meet in one of our live, interactive
conference rooms to make sure all understand what's happening and why!

Till next time,

George & Diane Culp
Go For Everlasting Revenue
Pro Traffic Exchanges Solve Your I Need Money Now Problem

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