GOFER Rants

Rants & Reviews About Home Biz

2007-11-01

Getting Rid of Junk and Temporary Files - Part II

 Getting Rid of Junk and Temporary Files - Part II

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 using Windows Explorer and doing a search on your
computer for "*.tmp" files.  If this is the first time you have ran this, bet you
had a huge list of files and some were actually several meg in size!  Our featured
article will continue to add more directories and files for your cleanxp batch
job along with some explanations as needed.

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.

This issue our tidbit will save you hours of frustration and heartache as you get back
to the basics regarding cables and connectors attached to your computer.  The best
way to explain this is by example yours truly went through just last week.  The
scenario goes like this:

All of sudden after a daily reboot of one of our computers, the first thing we noticed
was there was no networks or connections showing in our Network folder!  The
first thought was that a virus had struck and wiped out our entries.  So we did a
complete virus scan again and found nothing more than some tracking cookies
which were no real threat.  Next we checked our Windows Update history just to
make sure of what had been installed during the reboot process.  It showed an
update to our video and network controller program; so we thought that was the
issue.  We backed out the changes thanks to a good restore point being created
before the updates were applied. 

Still had the problem...next we thought we should make sure we had the latest driver
updates from the vendor.  Using another computer, we downloaded those files and
copied to a shared external drive.  Using the "no network" computer, we updated its
video and network drivers and rebooted again (probably for the what seemed like the
200th time)!  Still no network connections showing and no connection even to our
router???  After verifying the drivers were installed correctly and still no network
connections, we thoughts what the heck, lets make sure all the connections and cables
were OK.  We checked all those and they all were tight and nothing loose anywhere. 

Then a "lightbulb" moment came over me.  Why not try using the cable from the
router to the other computer on this computer and seeing if it will work?  Sure enough,
the switch was made and after another reboot, wallah - we had a connection to our
router and to the outside world!

Just goes to show you, don't always expect the worse, just make it a habit to check
your cables monthly visually making sure they look OK and are securely plugged in
where they're supposed to be!  Also, if a problem arises, follow the same principle,
look for the simple stuff first before thinking the worst!  It will save you untold amounts
of frustration and time.

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QUOTE:
The friendship of a dog is without a doubt more intense and more constant than that
of man
- Montaigne

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GOFER's Rant - Why No Trust?
WOW - make sure you have read our last rant - it should have hit home right in the
gut like a ton of bricks!

Trust - such a powerful word!  According to Dictionary.com one of the meanings of
trust is:
      to rely upon or place confidence in someone.

That's a pretty bold statement in itself!  But have you lost trust in everything related
to online business?  Here's how you take care of that issue...

If someone has been communicating with you and showing you results of what they
are accomplishing, why are you such a doubter?  You have got to communicate with
each other and in doing so, you build that trust.  That is what online business is all
about for us - relationship building.

So get off your butt and start building relationships and be honest with people!  That's
what you would like in return - correct?  So just go do it right now!!!

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Featured Article:  Getting Rid of Junk and Temporary Files
In our last issue, we started showing you the exact coding for your cleanxp.bat file. 
Here's a piece of that code to delete all temp files from your Local Settings\Temp
folder (without the comments):
cd "C:Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temp"
del /p /s /f *.*

Refer to our last issue if you need to review this coding.
By the way...we left out the back slashes ("\") in that last issue - sorry!

Another folder where lots of temp files with a different suffix or extension is located is
your Windows\prefetch folder.  Here's the coding and comments to delete those pesky
little worthless files.  Notice the suffix is ".pf" :

:: change to next folder where you want to delete files
cd "C:\windows\prefetch"
::
del /q /s /f *.pf
::
:: For each additional folder/directory you wish to clean out, repeat the above pattern:
:: Add a CD "FULL PATH TO FOLDER WITH FILES TO DELETE" followed by the
:: DEL command (as shown above).

That's all there is to getting rid of trash and temporary files you don't need cluttering up
your hard drive nor affecting your computer performance!

Once you read and understand what's happening, it becomes such a simple process
AND make it a habit!

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Next Time:
Stay tuned for the next issue... we will show you how to also backup data files which
are so critical to your business.  Protect yourself!

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Live Training Conferences - Do You Give A Dang?
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 might learn and or share with others...and YOU could win a great prize as well!

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Your Homework:
Read, understand and execute your cleanxp batch job to get rid of a lot of the tmp and
and pf files that have accumulated on your computer.

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 you fully understand what's happening and why!

Till next time,

George & Diane Culp
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