What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

Jim Hawkins

On Saturday 09 November 2013 20:32 Jim Hawkins wrote in uk.d-i-y:

What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

Jim Hawkins

Can you put an exclusion in on the backup system?

But to answer the oprinal question, it's probably safe.

The "correct way" (TM) to find out is to rename the directory so you can put
it back if it breaks

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On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 20:32:14 -0000, Jim Hawkins wrote:

What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

Jim Hawkins

I delete mine several times a week. Only the RSS reader generates them Opera
and Firfox don't; IE is blocked by the firewall and also not allowed to run
at all). The index.dat is erased on restart.
CCleaner seems to be the best. I set it up by using Analyze, seeing what was
found, then ticking one box and seeing what extra there was.
There's an add-on for CCleaner that includes far more apps. as well.
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In message , Jim Hawkins
writes
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

Jim Hawkins

Deleting them is an option both in Internet Explorer and 'Disk Cleanup'
(and probably 6 other places in XP), so I think you can safely get rid
of them.





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Jim Hawkins wrote:
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

There is very little in Windows you can't safely delete! :-) Certainly
any temp directory is fair game and, for some, a positive boon as
windows does choke on very full folders. The current user temp directory
is worth emptying regularly, something like:

users and documents\username\local\temp

And:

* windows\temp
* The various nonsense name directories (windows update junk) at the top
of the Windows dir

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Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

On 11/11/2013 09:34, Scott M wrote:
Jim Hawkins wrote:
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

There is very little in Windows you can't safely delete! :-) Certainly
any temp directory is fair game and, for some, a positive boon as
windows does choke on very full folders. The current user temp directory
is worth emptying regularly, something like:

users and documents\username\local\temp

And:

* windows\temp
* The various nonsense name directories (windows update junk) at the top
of the Windows dir

Or run CCleaner regularly, or before each backup.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

On 11/11/2013 10:36, Andrew May wrote:
On 11/11/2013 09:34, Scott M wrote:
Jim Hawkins wrote:

[snip]

Or run CCleaner regularly, or before each backup.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

+1

What a sad thread.

Jim Hawkins wrote:
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?

Go ahead and delete these temp files.

Disable prefetch while your at it. There are (slight hyperbole)
millions of YouTube vids on optimizing/speeding up windows go watch some.

DO A BACKUP BEFORE EXPERIMENTING.

"Jim Hawkins" wrote:
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

Jim Hawkins

What backup software are you using, would an offline image based backup be
better? Like clonezilla?



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On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:40:52 +0000, soup wrote:

Jim Hawkins wrote:
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?

Go ahead and delete these temp files.

Disable prefetch while your at it. There are (slight hyperbole)
millions of YouTube vids on optimizing/speeding up windows go watch some.

I've tried disabling Prefetch. It works, of course, but booting is slower
and a bit inconsistent so I've settled for boot on and apps off as apps seem
to be better without Prefetch.
When I update something big or change major items (F/W; AV etc.) I clear
Prefetch otherwise it's looking for things that don't exist.

Every so often I clone the HDD to another two HDDs and it's best to clear
Prefetch before and after that. I don't know what happens, but the clone
will tell me that it can't find some things, so I guess that the Prefetch is
linked to the volume's ID - or summat.


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On 09/11/2013 20:32, Jim Hawkins wrote:
What would be the result(s) of deleting the contents of the
Temporary Internet Files directory in my XP SP3 machine
before doing a backup?
These files (many of 0 byte length) are making my whole-disk
backup painfully slow.

Jim Hawkins

Download CCleaner run it ... remove all stuff you don't need then do
back up.

There is a whole load of stuff it will clear out not just temporary files.

Also run the registry fix in the same app (I always select option to
save backup of that)