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liquidlight · 02-08-2006, 04:18 PM

I've got a trick that I've used countless times that often gets overlooked:

Nuke your temp files.

There will be one or two folders that contain "temporary" files on your computer that are supposed to speed up application access because they are indexed by the operating system for streamlined delivery. In WinXP there is usally one located in %WindowsRoot%\Temp and another in "Documents and Settings\%User Name%\Local Settings\Temp. If you're not sure what they are for your computer right clicking My Computer, selecting Properties, the Environment Variables TEMP and TMP will be assigned and it will give you the path for them.

These folders on a clean boot should be COMPLETELY EMPTY, anything left in them is an artifact from either bad code or failed shutdowns and they will adversely affect your user experience.

The other temporary files that you'll want to keep track of are your Temporary Internet Files stored by FF or MSIE. By default the sizes of these stores is quite large on modern machines, anything over 20 megs is superfluous and can actually do more harm than good.

02-08-2006, 04:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
liquidlight AHH! Custom Title!! Location: The twisted warpings of my brain.	I've got a trick that I've used countless times that often gets overlooked: Nuke your temp files. There will be one or two folders that contain "temporary" files on your computer that are supposed to speed up application access because they are indexed by the operating system for streamlined delivery. In WinXP there is usally one located in %WindowsRoot%\Temp and another in "Documents and Settings\%User Name%\Local Settings\Temp. If you're not sure what they are for your computer right clicking My Computer, selecting Properties, the Environment Variables TEMP and TMP will be assigned and it will give you the path for them. These folders on a clean boot should be COMPLETELY EMPTY, anything left in them is an artifact from either bad code or failed shutdowns and they will adversely affect your user experience. The other temporary files that you'll want to keep track of are your Temporary Internet Files stored by FF or MSIE. By default the sizes of these stores is quite large on modern machines, anything over 20 megs is superfluous and can actually do more harm than good. __________________ Halfway to hell and picking up speed.