From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Try this BAT file in the Startup folder:

DEL /S  /Q  %TEMP%
EXIT

It'll wipe the whole TEMP= mess every time you boot.

"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:e3mrgv836d3d516pv1d0r4ak36eej6pp0h{at}4ax.com...
> Over the 4th and now today, I have worked on some home machines.  One
> was the MIL's and the other is the VP's wife's machine.
>
> Lemme tell ya, it ain't pretty. Thousands of orphaned .tmp files.
> Spyware galore.  A drive more fragmented than Charles Manson's mind.
> Gator, Gator, and more Gator.  Viruses? You betcha. The MIL machine
> had over 100,000 *files*, which I trimmed to about 50k.  Amazing.
>
> The MIL is 74 y.o. and will never, ever, "get it" as do many users
> such as the VP's wife.  They basically know how to use the machine,
> but beyond that they are accidents waiting to happen.  Maybe it's
> because she's a Gephardt democrat, I dunno. ;-)
>
> MIL gets bombarded with those fearsome webs ads to buy this to make
> her PC run faster, which she did, and that, to make an appendage grow
> that she was born without.  It's pretty scary.
>
> It's not that I blame their lack of tech knowledge, just a sad, sad
> commentary on the PC and Windows in general.  Why the **** are tmp
> files left forever?   Is this what drives those gigantic drive sales?
> Possibly.  From a distant, safe, perspective, I can't see why things
> have to be so steenkin' complicated.
>
> Are Macs really any better?
>
> - Richard

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