NON PD Re: "Temporary files"

["B. Bruce Anderson" <bbanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,  i will comply with your request.  You seem to know something about all
this so I thought I'd ask you for some help; maybe some others are having
the same fits.   I bought a new computer last week and I now seem to have
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Outlook Express(OE), Microsoft
Network (MSN) and ATT Worldnet ATT)  all competing with each other, or so it
seems.  I bought the fastest processor but my e-mail and internet use seem
slower than with the 486 I had, where IE and ATT worked well. Now I
constantly get 5  or 6 different  error messages & I get the MSN screen
asking for my password.  I don't want to use MSN.    An icon showed up on my
new desktop which was a hand with a finger on a mouse and "Micros...
"written under it.  Well, I know what Macros are so I figured I'd learn what
Micros are.  After clicking a couple fo time I had MSN downloading itself.
I stopped it after awhile but most of it downloaded, but I didn't get a
password.  To stop all the conflicts i used Uninstaller and deleted which
files showed up under MS Network (used Add/Remove Programs).  I still have
the same problems.   Here's my question, I still have 73 files totalling
over 10 MB here with MSN in the name, even tho the MSN icon disappeared in
Add/Remove Programs.  Should I just delete 'em manually to rid myself of
this beast?  The biggest file is  about 6.5 MB.

If you don't feel you want to answer this, no problem.  I just thought I'd
give it you a try before I got on hold with Dell for a couple of hours
tomorrow.

By the way, in my version of IE you have to go through View to go to
Internet Options.  Also, 2 questions - what are and how to you disable
digital signatures, and how do you know if someone is using IE and/or OE?

I was cleaning the hard drive on my old computer & found 10 MB of Check
(CHK) files, which are also useless; and, when I first learned about the
Temporary Internet, or Cache, files I found 50+ MB of them!
Bruce Anderson (51,3+)
Schooley's Mtn. NJ
bbanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

----Original Message-----
From: Robert A. Fink, M.D. <rafink@xxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 4:56 PM
Subject: "Temporary files"


>The following appeared in a column in the San Francisco Chronicle
>today:
>
>Q: "I discovered, to my distress, how many "temporary Internet files"
>my hard disk was storing using Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Many of
>these are small, but the disk space consumed was far in excess of the
>size of the contents.  How do I tell Internet Explorer to limit the
>length of time these files are stored?"
>
>A:  "Temporary Internet files, also called 'cache' files, consist of
>graphics and other elements of Web Pages [including "digital
>signatures"].  When you visit a page for the first time, your browser
>stores the "constant elements" of the Page so that it can be opened
>faster on subsequent visits.  Unfortunately, you can't set an
>automatic expiration time for temporary Internet files.  But you can
>delete cached files and limit the amount of disk space they take up.
>In Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options.  In the General tab
>you'll see a button for deleting temporary Internet files, and
>another button called Settings, which lets you determine the maximum
>amount of disk space for temporary files."  (also, disable "Digital
>Signatures")
>
>I have been making a pest of myself in complaining about the use of
>Microsoft Internet Explorer/Outlook Express with its "special
>features" enabled (the "default" setting when you get the program),
>and how, for many of us, this results in e-mail messages coming with
>"attachments" and other binary junk.  The above question, asked in a
>computer column in our local newspaper, addresses only the cluttering
>of the *sender's* hard drive; this accumulation also occurs on the
>*recipient's* hard drive.
>
>I am making a plea to those of you who use IE and/or Outlook
>Express, to disable these "bells and whistles" when posting List
>messages.  Leaving them in place can cause crashes, clutter up one's
>hard disk; and, in my case, will result in my not reading those
>messages.
>
>
>Best,
>
>Bob
>
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