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Dwayne Epps
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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:50 am Post subject: cleaning out files |
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I routinely go and empty out my browser history, cache, temp file, run disk
cleanup, etc., but I understand that the files aren't actually getting
deleted. I also heard that the same is true for Outlook emails that have
been deleted and newsgroup emails. I was curious about this because I've
noticed my hard drive space increasing at a faster rate than I would have
anticipated. Is it true that .dat files can be a cause of this and that the
files deleted from browser history, cache, temp, etc. can be deleted
properly from within the DOS shell? Is this true? I was looking for any
online articles or a better way to clean out all of these types of files.
Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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David
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:18 am Post subject: Re: cleaning out files |
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:50:22 -0500, "Dwayne Epps"
<dwayneeppsNOSPAM@centurytel.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I routinely go and empty out my browser history, cache, temp file, run disk
cleanup, etc., but I understand that the files aren't actually getting
deleted. I also heard that the same is true for Outlook emails that have
been deleted and newsgroup emails. I was curious about this because I've
noticed my hard drive space increasing at a faster rate than I would have
anticipated. Is it true that .dat files can be a cause of this and that the
files deleted from browser history, cache, temp, etc. can be deleted
properly from within the DOS shell? Is this true? I was looking for any
online articles or a better way to clean out all of these types of files.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Some news group programs keep .dat files of all of the headers you
download so make sure you delet the headers.
David |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:59 am Post subject: Re: cleaning out files |
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this will do most... download WIPE
http://www.securitysoftware.cc/apps.html
then do this...
http://users3.ev1.net/~stevengould/cleanup/download.html
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:50:22 -0500, "Dwayne Epps"
<dwayneeppsNOSPAM@centurytel.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I routinely go and empty out my browser history, cache, temp file, run disk
cleanup, etc., but I understand that the files aren't actually getting
deleted. I also heard that the same is true for Outlook emails that have
been deleted and newsgroup emails. I was curious about this because I've
noticed my hard drive space increasing at a faster rate than I would have
anticipated. Is it true that .dat files can be a cause of this and that the
files deleted from browser history, cache, temp, etc. can be deleted
properly from within the DOS shell? Is this true? I was looking for any
online articles or a better way to clean out all of these types of files.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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