Comments on: Who Needs Vista??!! Show Your PC Some Love This Christmas And Tune It Up http://www.onetipaday.com/2006/12/10/who-needs-vista-show-your-pc-some-love-this-christmas-and-tune-it-up/ What Will You Learn Today? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Larry Millerhttp://www.onetipaday.com/2006/12/10/who-needs-vista-show-your-pc-some-love-this-christmas-and-tune-it-up/comment-page-1/#comment-55130 Larry Miller Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:50:36 +0000 http://www.onetipaday.com/2006/12/10/who-needs-vista-show-your-pc-some-love-this-christmas-and-tune-it-up/#comment-55130 It is a good idea to periodically delete temp and history files, but don't expect any performance gains from this.  Temp files are used and managed by applications, Windows couldn't care less about them. Windows most certainly does NOT examine them during bootup.  Even a very large temp folder will have virtually no impact on performance. Windows does use history files but takes no notice of them during boot. All that this script will do is slightly lengthen shutdown times.Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA It is a good idea to periodically delete temp and history files, but don’t expect any performance gains from this.  Temp files are used and managed by applications, Windows couldn’t care less about them. Windows most certainly does NOT examine them during bootup.  Even a very large temp folder will have virtually no impact on performance. Windows does use history files but takes no notice of them during boot. All that this script will do is slightly lengthen shutdown times.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

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