Two Questions

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No. 1

Using XP Home. I looked in my "Recycle" directory and there were three sub
directories, each with very long names. In one of these there was 384meg of
long ago deleted files. I delete "deleted" files form the recycle bin
daily. After looking at the contents of this directory, and went to the
recycle icon again, and then it showed me these files and they deleted as
expected. Comments?

No. 2

One of the programmes I use is Corel Draw V11. It is memory intensive. I
have 512 M RAM, but this programme often consumes 1 Gig RAM. Things get
understandably slow. But when I close Corel, XP does not flush the memory.
It will still show >512M consumed via Task Manager. Everything then loads
very slowly and the whole PC slows dramatically. A reboot fixes this. But
is there a way to flush the memory?

TIA

 

[Mary Sauer]

As to question two
HOW TO: Set Performance Options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308417

 

[spot]

Hi Mary,

Read your link, but it does not tell me how to flush the memory

Regards from Australia

 

[Alex Nichol]

Using XP Home. I looked in my "Recycle" directory and there were three sub
directories, each with very long names. In one of these there was 384meg of
long ago deleted files. I delete "deleted" files form the recycle bin
daily. After looking at the contents of this directory, and went to the
recycle icon again, and then it showed me these files and they deleted as
expected. Comments?

On an NTFS drive the recycle bin is held in a Recycler folder, with a
subfolder for each user account (hence those long S1-5- etc names), to
hold files as deleted by that account. They will not show in someone
elses logon. Each user ought to tidy the bin for himself.

 

[spot]

Thanks

Using XP Home. I looked in my "Recycle" directory and there were three sub
directories, each with very long names. In one of these there was 384meg of
long ago deleted files. I delete "deleted" files form the recycle bin
daily. After looking at the contents of this directory, and went to the
recycle icon again, and then it showed me these files and they deleted as
expected. Comments?

On an NTFS drive the recycle bin is held in a Recycler folder, with a
subfolder for each user account (hence those long S1-5- etc names), to
hold files as deleted by that account. They will not show in someone
elses logon. Each user ought to tidy the bin for himself.