Temporary Internet files

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Richard Fangnail

When you delete them, why does it take about five minutes? All you are
doing is deleting files, so I would think.
 
Richard said:
When you delete them, why does it take about five minutes? All you are
doing is deleting files, so I would think.
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Not really. Windows is NOT deleting them. Its just sending tags to the
recycle bin.
 
Richard

A web page is made up of many small elements.. text, logos, pictures,
graphs, menus.. each element is saved as a separate file.. an hour spent
surfing and you could have thousands of temporary internet files.. clear
yours, and then go surfing, say to a 'wallpaper' site, or any web sites..
after a while, go back and see how many you have..
 
Well, you could set it up to delete the files when you close your
browser everytime. Do this:

tools, Internet Options, Advanced

Scoll down to Security

Click on "Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when browser is closed"

hth
 
Richard Fangnail said:
When you delete them, why does it take about five minutes? All you are
doing is deleting files, so I would think.
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Some people may have hundreds of megabytes of little kilobyte files.
That can be thousands or tens of thousands of files to "delete."

Plus, early design decisions in DOS/Windows made it very inefficient
to store lots of tiny files. So "Temporary Internet Files" isn't a
"real folder". They aren't actually tens of thousands of tiny files
in there. All this is a charade to make it look like they are real
files. Actually there are only a handful of "real files" and then
Windows has to make all this look like what you think it is. That
means it has to do a bunch of housekeeping to make it appear that
the files are now gone.

Similar questions, why can it take hundreds of times longer to format
a drive than it takes to have the head travel across every byte on
the surface, why can it take half a dozen hours to defrag a drive
that isn't particularly badly fragmented to begin with.

The answer is that it is software taking far longer to do something
than makes any sense.
 
Microsoft has this application that installs 1000's of small files which are
language files each in a folder of their own. It takes only a few minutes
to install the thing but can take an hour to uninstall it. A lot of small
files can take forever to remove.
 
George said:
Microsoft has this application that installs 1000's of small files
which are
language files each in a folder of their own. It takes only a few
minutes
to install the thing but can take an hour to uninstall it. A lot of
small files can take forever to remove.
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What application is that and what does it have to do with TIF's? I don't
have thousands of language files in separate folders on any of my 6
personal XP boxen and I've not seen that on the many, many client
machines I service.

If you have this on your machine, you have something installed causing
it or you've done something wrong. If this is the case, make a new post
including all the details and someone may try to help you.

Malke
 
I don't recall this thing Microsoft had it at their site about 4 years ago.
It was something to use with IIS. But the point was small files. That is
what I said had to do with the TIF. The TIF is composed of many small files
so the removal of them can take some time and I was showing how this could
be exhibited outside of the TIF. The TIF is not the only place where this
behavior of removing small files can also be experienced.

Of course you would not have these small language files on your machine if
you never installed the application I was speaking of. Heck Microsoft may
not even have it any longer available. I don't know as I didn't like it and
so did not pursue it.
 
George said:
I don't recall this thing Microsoft had it at their site about 4 years
ago.
It was something to use with IIS. But the point was small files.
That is
what I said had to do with the TIF. The TIF is composed of many small
files so the removal of them can take some time and I was showing how
this could
be exhibited outside of the TIF. The TIF is not the only place where
this behavior of removing small files can also be experienced.

Of course you would not have these small language files on your
machine if
you never installed the application I was speaking of. Heck Microsoft
may
not even have it any longer available. I don't know as I didn't like
it and so did not pursue it.
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I see. From your original post (see above), it sounded like you were
referring to something current and to something that was germane to the
OP's problem. Apparently it wasn't and you were just wanting to bitch.
If you hate MS so much, why do you use their operating system? There
are plenty of others. You'd probably like OSX.

Malke
 
Malke what the hell was I bitching about? What is wrong with you people?
My God you all have sticks up your asses. It was an aplication that
installed many small files and folders and took a while to remove them. Now
what was I bitching about there? I was just showing how in an unrelated
application the removal of small files can take time. Just as in the TIF.

It was germane to the OPs post because he asked, "When you delete them, why
does it take about five minutes?" And my answer was because the TIF is
composed of small files. "All you are doing is deleting files, so I would
think." Yes that is right. In another application that I got from
Microsoft it also put in many small files and folders. In fact this
application put in 1000's of folders all mostly empty. So yes all I was
doing was deleting virtually empty folders and it took a very long time.

Now if this analogy is beyond you I can understand your frustration.
 
Richard said:
When you delete them, why does it take about five minutes? All you are
doing is deleting files, so I would think.
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You're obviously a moron, so what you "would think" isn't of any cosmic
consequence.
 
Mike said:
...... or Knoppix.. :-)
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No, Linux will be beyond him and not a good choice. Besides, we have
enough trolls in the Linux newsgroups. ;-)

He goes back in my killfile.

Malke
 
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