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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Program Freeze
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 19:44:04 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000001c0d2ad$40911900$7c915b0c@ejpu8>


In addition to the other advice you're about to get from others, I can't
emphasize enough the importance of deleting your Windows temp files after
multiple crashes like this. Without going into technical details, these
files tend to build up, and can create a cascade sort of problem where
everytime you crash you add more files which takes more RAM away, which
precipitates another crash, ... you get the idea.

In the directory C:\Windows\Temp you'll see a bunch of files that begin with
~ and end in .tmp. The names don't really matter -- they're all bogus. If
there are any files in there when you first start your computer, DELETE
THEM. Don't worry, you CANNOT hurt your system by doing this. I've seen some
computers that had literally thousands of files in the temp directory and
had gotten so bad that the owners couldn't even boot windows, let alone
start a program.

This is probably one of the single most important bits of computer
maintenance information you'll ever get -- it's right up there with not
turning off the computer without shutting down properly. Incidentally, the
reasons you're not supposed to do that include not adding tons of spurious
files to your temp directory. <G>

DeAnna

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