My computer has been running a bit slow the past several days, and it just occurred to me that I hadn't emptied the cache for Firefox or any of my other programs for quite a while. I did a search for all files in hidden folders, which brought up about 12,000 items. I hit control-A to highlight all of the hidden files, then tried to delete all of them--and it locked up my computer. I tried this about three times, with the same results. Any suggestions?
2007-07-16 23:17:57 · 2 answers · asked by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I'm looking in my Control Panel but I'm not seeing System Tools. What folder should it be in?
2007-07-16 23:25:43 · update #1
Never mind, I found the shortcut.
2007-07-16 23:28:20 · update #2
Disk Cleanup seems to work well in this situation most of the time. Programs---> Accessories---> System Tools--> DiskCleanup, but sometimes that may hang also depending on file entries. It took three hours on one machine we "Cleaned".
You can delete a couple of screens at a time from My Computer screen most of the time. I set Firefox to delete temporary files on exit... it is under the Options I forget which tab, security or content?
I scheduled disk cleanup to run once every two weeks and that seems to keep a good clean set of files without the lockups.
2007-07-17 00:44:35 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the Disk Cleanup utility in the system tools section of accessories. It works, it's free, it comes with Windows XP. Vista too.
2007-07-17 06:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by Jag 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋