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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
On 01 Jul 2018, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt: Nil wrote: I do! Three of then, in fact. I have no idea what they are or what they do. I don't think I've ever used IE on this Win7-64 computer. C:\Users\me!\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Tem porary Internet Files\counters.dat C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\L ocal\Microsoft\W indows\Temporary Internet Files\counters.dat C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\L ocal\Microsoft\W indows\Temporary Internet Files\counters.dat Would those be for Internet Explorer ? I checked the other machine, and it doesn't have those either. (Searched with Agent Ransack on a Win10 install.) Mind you, I don't use IE all that often. I'm sure they're related to Internet Explorer somehow, since they live in IE's temporary files directory. I also find them on my Win7-32 system. I do NOT find them on my XP or Win10 systems. Hmmmm... I just fired up IE on this Win7-64 computer and I guess it's the first time since I built the computer last December, because I got the prompt asking me if I wanted IE use "recommended settings". I had an idea that maybe COUNTERS.DAT had to do with running IE for the first time, but the files are still there and their dates are still 12/12/2017. I find other people asking on the web about what that file is. Nobody seems to know. It seems to be difficult to delete. |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:03:43 -0400, Bill wrote:
I use CCleaner everyday to purge my browsing history, etc. It used to run faster. It takes quite a while to even remove "counters.dat", whatever that is. Maybe you should ask the people of Avast. After all, they've purchased CCleaner not so long ago... -- s|b |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:16:23 -0400, Nil
wrote: It seems to be difficult to delete. Resistance is futile. Or, even for Microsoft, rather ironically, General Public Licensing has GRUB pretty much written in bold Bull's Eye lettering on the wall. (Excluding one of Windows 10's recent patches which "broke" GRUB.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...f_boot_loaders NTFS then being somewhat a minor imposition for "static" maintenance. "Ghosting", or imagining software capable of advanced editing within its own images. Although few do among those that will well cost. Operational VM system imaging and a 128M/Byte developer's platform would be another interesting scenario. Another is to zero it out, a null overwrite. A proviso of Microsoft coding for looping validity and a prior state of counters.dat to intermediary accountability -- in extremity the infamous "blue" or other errant form of terminable screen. As any type of CCleaner sort knows, among degrees of severity these programs attempt, that results are not to be held accountable for data loss, when a standard user assumes responsibility to contain their system for events of failure. Or, none of the above: Microsoft operates at "levels" of associative permission permitted modular modifications. A core modular or highest system-level being both impermissible and proprietary, if all but inured (sic) by dint of US Copyright. When 'difficulty' is another informality and hardly anything but easier a second time up. (Unless perhaps a preclusion by another formality, such as a scrutiny for Windows' "programs" given leeway by code-writers of WINE.) |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Robert wrote:
Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip! TYVM! Bill |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote:
Robert wrote: Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip! TYVM! Bill Most browsers have an "Export Bookmarks". That's the bit worth saving. In some browsers, the option is buried three layers deep, as if they don't want you to know the option is available. This converts proprietary formats such as ..jsonlz4 or some binary database format, into something you can use for "import" later. This should be done before making significant changes to the browser and trashing the possibility of Export. Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Paul wrote:
Bill wrote: Robert wrote: Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too!Â* Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about?Â* Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile.Â* Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip!Â* TYVM! Bill Most browsers have an "Export Bookmarks". That's the bit worth saving. In some browsers, the option is buried three layers deep, as if they don't want you to know the option is available. This converts proprietary formats such as .jsonlz4 or some binary database format, into something you can use for "import" later. This should be done before making significant changes to the browser and trashing the possibility of Export. Â*Â* Paul Thanks again. I was wondering how I was going to relocate the bookmarks! BTW, I just tried to delete my 2 files, counters.dat--and I couldn't even do it as administrator (I received the message "in use by explorer.exe"). I think that's at the crux of why CCleaner is running slower for me--everytime it runs, it tries, and fails, to delete these files. Bill |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote:
Paul wrote: Bill wrote: Robert wrote: Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip! TYVM! Bill Most browsers have an "Export Bookmarks". That's the bit worth saving. In some browsers, the option is buried three layers deep, as if they don't want you to know the option is available. This converts proprietary formats such as .jsonlz4 or some binary database format, into something you can use for "import" later. This should be done before making significant changes to the browser and trashing the possibility of Export. Paul Thanks again. I was wondering how I was going to relocate the bookmarks! BTW, I just tried to delete my 2 files, counters.dat--and I couldn't even do it as administrator (I received the message "in use by explorer.exe"). I think that's at the crux of why CCleaner is running slower for me--everytime it runs, it tries, and fails, to delete these files. Bill Does Task Manager show any iexplorer.exe tasks ? Don't forget to turn on the "full details", as the initial appearance of the thing is rather limited in what it presents. Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Paul wrote:
Bill wrote: Paul wrote: Bill wrote: Robert wrote: Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too!Â* Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about?Â* Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile.Â* Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip!Â* TYVM! Bill Most browsers have an "Export Bookmarks". That's the bit worth saving. In some browsers, the option is buried three layers deep, as if they don't want you to know the option is available. This converts proprietary formats such as .jsonlz4 or some binary database format, into something you can use for "import" later. This should be done before making significant changes to the browser and trashing the possibility of Export. Â*Â*Â* Paul Thanks again.Â* I was wondering how I was going to relocate the bookmarks! BTW, I just tried to delete my 2 files, counters.dat--and I couldn't even do it as administrator (I received the message "in use by explorer.exe"). I think that's at the crux of why CCleaner is running slower for me--everytime it runs, it tries, and fails, to delete these files. Bill Does Task Manager show any iexplorer.exe tasks ? No, but it does show a/the explorer.exe process. Its description on the right says "Windows Explorer". I think this is not closely related to internet explorer, but I could be mistaken. I don't run Internet Explorer unless a web site "forces me" to. Bill Don't forget to turn on the "full details", as the initial appearance of the thing is rather limited in what it presents. Â*Â* Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote:
Paul wrote: Bill wrote: Paul wrote: Bill wrote: Robert wrote: Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip! TYVM! Bill Most browsers have an "Export Bookmarks". That's the bit worth saving. In some browsers, the option is buried three layers deep, as if they don't want you to know the option is available. This converts proprietary formats such as .jsonlz4 or some binary database format, into something you can use for "import" later. This should be done before making significant changes to the browser and trashing the possibility of Export. Paul Thanks again. I was wondering how I was going to relocate the bookmarks! BTW, I just tried to delete my 2 files, counters.dat--and I couldn't even do it as administrator (I received the message "in use by explorer.exe"). I think that's at the crux of why CCleaner is running slower for me--everytime it runs, it tries, and fails, to delete these files. Bill Does Task Manager show any iexplorer.exe tasks ? No, but it does show a/the explorer.exe process. Its description on the right says "Windows Explorer". I think this is not closely related to internet explorer, but I could be mistaken. I don't run Internet Explorer unless a web site "forces me" to. Bill Internet Explorer is likely "iexplore.exe" or so. Whereas "explorer.exe" would be the desktop. It's more than just a file manager window, as it decorates stuff too. In Windows 10, the desktop is "dwm.exe" as near as I can figure out. And not everything ending in .exe on Windows 10 is an actual PE32 or PE32+ application either. There are some tricky ones made with alternative methods (HTML/JS). By comparison, the older OSes were easier to figure out. Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:11:50 -0400, Bill wrote:
No, but it does show a/the explorer.exe process. Its description on the right says "Windows Explorer". I think this is not closely related to internet explorer, but I could be mistaken. I don't run Internet Explorer unless a web site "forces me" to. Might like a look at Process Lasso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Lasso Once a mainstay, unfortunately no longer freeware, although it can be had for nothing, upon occasion I notice others say, when offered free for some incentive, possibly through an email registration exchange thing. I've an older version, perhaps not now available for self apparent reasons, when programmers want hard money. Running programs, although similarly identifiable within a Windows' counterpart program style resource monitor, have slowed down my computer without a usual indicative from apparent resource draw. Once I forcibly terminated them the operating system resumed to normal status and function. Where PL does it's thing, is that rules can be specifically defined for particular instances of programming modules - PIDs - such as stopping, terminating them, throttling priorities, restricted utilization and such. Not that you shouldn't be able to trouble-shoot from Windows' provisions for side-processes, knowing first how and what you're using to delete files isn't the culprit -- at anything less than as it effectively should be -- for an instantaneous erasure. Stuttering all over sectors can be Bad News anytime, especially on a disk if indicative of a possibly bad or failure-prone HDD headed southbound. A fully-stuffed and fragmented drive, conceivably with its files busted up and all over hell, although I've never run with a likes, so they say, will also evidence "thrashing" in a bad way. |
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