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Posted by R. C. White on May 9, 2008, 10:13 am
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Hi, Meeber' s.
Sorry to sidetrack your update thread, but this seems a good place for TIF
comments. ;^}
In Internet Explorer (any version since IE6, at least), click Tools |
Internet Options | Advanced. Scroll down almost to the end to the Security
heading. Check the box for "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when
browser is closed". This will prevent the buildup of no-longer-needed
temporary files in the TIF.
In the middle of the first ("General") tab of that options window, we can
adjust the size and location of the TIF, although the terminology Microsoft
uses here is sometimes obscure. IE7 and IE8 beta 1, for example, call this
area "Browsing History". Just click "Settings" here to see another window
that lets us change things to suit us and our computer. I've changed the
size of the TIF in IE8b1 to 250 MB; default was 50 MB, as I recall, which is
tiny on today's 300+ GB hard drives. (As I recall, IE6 used a
percentage-of-the-hard-drive setting, with a default that was reasonable for
a 20 GB volume but way too much for a 300 GB drive.) You can also Move the
folder to your Drive D: or Drive X: or wherever you like to keep from using
up all the space on Drive C:. You can change the pathname, too, but
remember to give the name of the Parent folder, not the TIF folder itself,
or you'll end up with an extra level of subfolders. (Mine is in
E:TempINetTemporary Internet Files.)
Just don't try to manipulate these TIF files and folders using "normal"
Windows tools. It can be done by power users, but those are special files
and need the special handling provided by IE's Internet Options.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
> R6 to R7 presented me with "A patching engine error has occured".
> Quicken.com search revealed that, among other things to try, was to empty
> my temp folder. Having just applied SP3 to my computer, the temp folder
> was huge. That solved the problem, R7 installed normally.
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