*SEARCH* Arghhhh!

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I open c: drive and do a search for "temp." I want to find all the temp
folders and see if there is junk in them I can delete.

Search finds about 40 folders with the word "temp" in them and takes
about 25 seconds to do it.

I click on one of the found folders and it opens and I check out what is
in there.

I click the arrow to go back to the search list and the damn thing
starts over... it does the search again!!!

So... I try the "Save search" thing... but all that does is save the
search word... that's about as stupid a function as Microsoft has ever
thought up. What's the point in saving a search word when it just starts
over anyway?

In XP I could do what I wanted in search. Check one of the found folders
and go back to the search list. Is there a way to junk vista's search
and go back to xp's?

John
 
John said:
I open c: drive and do a search for "temp." I want to find all the temp
folders and see if there is junk in them I can delete.

Search finds about 40 folders with the word "temp" in them and takes about
25 seconds to do it.

I click on one of the found folders and it opens and I check out what is
in there.

I click the arrow to go back to the search list and the damn thing starts
over... it does the search again!!!

So... I try the "Save search" thing... but all that does is save the
search word... that's about as stupid a function as Microsoft has ever
thought up. What's the point in saving a search word when it just starts
over anyway?

In XP I could do what I wanted in search. Check one of the found folders
and go back to the search list. Is there a way to junk vista's search and
go back to xp's?
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You could do a search for .tmp files in C:\ now and again if you really want
to, but the only place you really should check that often is in your user
temp folder.

Just type %temp% into an address bar. You can also check out
C:\Windows\temp, but there will not be so much to delete there very often.

ss.
 
I used temp as an example. I wasn't looking for advice on how to handle
temp foldres. shhesh!
Gess
 
I used temp as an example. I wasn't looking for advice on how to handle
temp foldres. shhesh!
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Are people supposed to be able to read your mind [what little of it
that is apparent]?
 
I use cccleaner too but it doesn't find everything.
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How do you KNOW that?

Did you happen to see that it has an option where you can set "custom"
folders for it to check?
 
I guess this is not the place to come for help. Reading through other
posts it seems to be mostly a contest of who can be the most abusive.
Isn't there a moderator for this thing?

John
 
I guess this is not the place to come for help. Reading through other
posts it seems to be mostly a contest of who can be the most abusive.
Isn't there a moderator for this thing?
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Your ignorance of how newsgroups work is duly noted.
 
I guess this is not the place to come for help. Reading through other
posts it seems to be mostly a contest of who can be the most abusive.
Isn't there a moderator for this thing?
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Nope. This is USENET, doofus. You're on yer own. There's no Nanny
protecting you from your own stupidity.
 
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