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From Dennis===

Dear Webby,
As a long time reader of your humor letter, I’ve enjoyed 
everything from the daily quotations to your apt replies to 
computer questions, which is why I’m asking you instead 
of Microsoft. Not to mention that your solution will probably 
help other readers.

While “Spring Cleaning” my overcrowded hard disk, I found
that a mysteriously large 15% of its data is in a folder 
ominously called: “Documents and Settings” with 7.48 GB. 

Of that the lion’s share is in: 
“C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis\Local Settings\Temp” 
(an invisible file, seemingly a warning not to meddle) 
containing a whopping 6.46 GB in 19,500 files, 146 folders.
 
Surely this is an unreasonable amount of disk space for 
setting, yet a non-expert hesitates to monkey with something
that might upset valued programs, so how to slim down this 
bloated mess?

Thanks for any advice & the daily grins,
Dennis


Dear Dennis
Just open the (files) Explorer (not MSIE),
highlight C:\
Right-click it
Click on the Disk Cleanup button
Let it do it's thing. It will take a few minutes.

After that, most of that temp stuff will be gone, and your 
machine will run a bit faster.

I usually do that as the last item of a tune-up.
The first item is running Spybot-Search&Destroy.

Next I check fragmentation with disKeeper. It keeps things 
defragmented on it's own, because it runs every time the 
screensaver kicks in, but I just like to gloat over seeing 
0% fragmentation on all drives.

After that I do a diskClean.

Normally I do a tune-up like that every Saturday night, 
and once a month I reboot, whether it needs it or not.

Have FUN!
DearWebby