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I'm tellin' ya, Windows needs a file attribute called Expired Date (or something similar) that tells the OS, once a file reaches that date the OS can clean it up as part of regular disk maintenance.
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Nice mock up of the dialog box in HTML. Should of made the OK button do something a bit more interesting though!
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About expired dates, funny story: thedailywtf.com/.../Classic-WTF-The-Bug-That-Shut-Down-Computers-WorldWide.aspx. Still, could be a good idea.
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@theraot: Can't you verify it's AutoHotkey by binary diff. You know by its architecture what can change and what can't. Come to think of it, that might be an interesting idea for digital signatures....
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@jader3rd Funny that you mention that... blogs.msdn.com/.../10119675.aspx
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>>> I have mine set to 2 days. Imagine what will happen when you go on vacation...
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>>> Imagine what will happen when you go on vacation... I imagine that he won't install new software without a reboot just before going on vacation...
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@MC: Unfortunately Webkit defaults the border colour to ‘gray’ which diminishes the experience somewhat.
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Why can't Photo Gallery view pictures sequentially when extracted to the Temp directory? It doesn't seem to "find" the next picture?
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@ Maurits [MSFT]: Actually I have installed DataRAM and make a RAM disk of 3GB, from total of 12GB (can be used up 4GB in free version), make three folders there: USERTEMP, SYSTEMP and OPERATEMP, saved...
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"The setup program is running from the TEMP directory. That should already set off alarm bells. " They are dumb, didn't you tell them that Ray? I mean, you make a product, create a nice site around it...
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@Maurits Yeah, having the /tmp directory as a ramdisk is rather a good idea for computers with very slow I/O. I actually experimented with making various subdirs of /var a ramdisk at one point (this...
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@Danny In most downloadable installers, the exe you download is standalone and extracts the files for the real installer. The problem is that this one extracted the files directly to the TEMP directory...
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Another option for cleaning up the temp folder is Disk Cleanup. It removes temp files that haven't been accessed in a week. However since Vista turned of the updating of the last file access timestamp...
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Is there a listview message to invoke this command?
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I once wrote a program that needed to create a fair number temp files. Unfortunately I didn't realize that I was leaking them some times (usually because I was forcibly terminating my program during...
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"Maybe you'll get a call from Microsoft Research asking for more information about your time machine." AHA! Proof that Microsoft will have stolen everything! Raymond said it so it must be true.
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In related news, on my machine %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache contains OVER NINE THOUSAND (literally) empty folders.
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I have a large vertical rotating cylinder that can be used as a time machine, but not that effectively.
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Aha, so that must be how the window manager correctly detects double clicks even when the computer is lagging so badly that it takes seconds before the action actually happens? I always assumed the...
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