Jim and Stacy, I think her question might have been that whoever she was talking with was confused with her objective. I think she just wanted to delete files to make her computer faster and they were talking about someone accessing the files later like if you gave the computer to someone else. Then a program would have to be used to overwrite those files.
Or am I mixing two queries? Holly On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, jpurcell <[email protected]> wrote: > STACY, > > > what I did previously, it is still there. > > What you mean I assume is that files that you deleted seem to have > come back. > Two possible explanations for that: a. those files got created again > or b. they did not get deleted. > > I would say that either is possible. One thing never to do is to > delete a file that has an extension of .exe, .dll, .com, .bat, > etc. .tmp files are temporary files and can usually be deleted with > impunity. Cookies are not actually required, and not usually harmful. > Whether they slow down a computer is not always clear. If the OS has > to go through a large number of files as it does it's thing, that can > slow things down. > > My understanding of the most common software things that slow down > computers are those programs that are run at startup and that stay > running. When you first get your computer there are usually not many > of those. When you install new programs the installer often loads a > lot of junk to run at startup. Most are not necessary, even for the > program you are installing. > > Here's how to get rid of many of those. Run MSCONFIG. To do this go to > Start [bottom left of screen] then click run. This shows a box where > you can type text. Type msconfig then click OK. A program will open > that has several tabs, click 'startup' to view what programs run on > startup. Notice that these items have check marks, these can be > clicked to remove them. The names of these files can be confusing. > None of these is absolutely necessary for the running of your > computer. You could uncheck them all and then restart the computer. A > few of them will be replaced, like ctfmon [or something like that] No > point in unchecking it, it will be replaced with an unchecked one. You > can research start up programs on Google, just type 'start up' or > something like that. > > Of course sometimes it is hardware problems that cause a slow > computer. Temperature is one of those, a computer running hot can run > slow as a result. Not enough memory [that's memory not hard drive > space] can cause a slow computer. One gigabyte or memory [ram] tends > to be optimum for most computer. Adding more is not likely to help much. > > > Jim > > > > -- Reply to [email protected] View all my websites from http://www.hollyscloset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
