If you’ve ever run the Windows XP’s Disk Cleanup utility, you probably discovered that your temporary files occupy a significant amount of space. You might select the Temporary Files check box in order to allow the Disk Cleanup utility to delete the files in the Temp folder, but the Disk Cleanup utility will not remove all of the files. The reason for this oddity is that the configuration for the Disk Cleanup utility does not allow deletion of files accessed in the last seven days.
By altering the LastAccess value in the registry, you can configure the Disk Cleanup utility to delete all the files in the Temp folder regardless of the last accessed date. Here’s how: Read More»
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Manually cleaning out the Temp folder in Window Vista is often a necessary maintenance step when the Windows Vista Disk Cleanup utility fails to completely clean out the Temp folder.
Removing temporary files is a quick and easy task that can help save disk space and keep your PC clean of file clutter. Just follow the step by step directions below to manually clean out the Temp folder: Read More»
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When you want to put a document online, or distribute it via e-mail, and you need it to look exactly the way it looks on paper, then PDF is the way to go — and the standard application used to view PDF files is, of course, Adobe Reader.
Unfortunately, according to Adobe, Vista doesn’t support older versions of Reader, and the current version, Adobe Reader 8 (released in November, 2006), will be updated for Vista sometime “in the first half” of 2007. So what’s the story in the meantime?
Problem: Adobe Reader 8 doesn’t work with Vista
Well, if you’re a Vista user and you decide to install Reader 8, the first hint of any problem may come when you get an error message like “The temp folder on a drive was full . . . ” or “The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. . . .” Read More»
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