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Bob, i will comply with your request. You seem to know something about all this so I thought I'd ask you for some help; maybe some others are having the same fits. I bought a new computer last week and I now seem to have Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Outlook Express(OE), Microsoft Network (MSN) and ATT Worldnet ATT) all competing with each other, or so it seems. I bought the fastest processor but my e-mail and internet use seem slower than with the 486 I had, where IE and ATT worked well. Now I constantly get 5 or 6 different error messages & I get the MSN screen asking for my password. I don't want to use MSN. An icon showed up on my new desktop which was a hand with a finger on a mouse and "Micros... "written under it. Well, I know what Macros are so I figured I'd learn what Micros are. After clicking a couple fo time I had MSN downloading itself. I stopped it after awhile but most of it downloaded, but I didn't get a password. To stop all the conflicts i used Uninstaller and deleted which files showed up under MS Network (used Add/Remove Programs). I still have the same problems. Here's my question, I still have 73 files totalling over 10 MB here with MSN in the name, even tho the MSN icon disappeared in Add/Remove Programs. Should I just delete 'em manually to rid myself of this beast? The biggest file is about 6.5 MB. If you don't feel you want to answer this, no problem. I just thought I'd give it you a try before I got on hold with Dell for a couple of hours tomorrow. By the way, in my version of IE you have to go through View to go to Internet Options. Also, 2 questions - what are and how to you disable digital signatures, and how do you know if someone is using IE and/or OE? I was cleaning the hard drive on my old computer & found 10 MB of Check (CHK) files, which are also useless; and, when I first learned about the Temporary Internet, or Cache, files I found 50+ MB of them! Bruce Anderson (51,3+) Schooley's Mtn. NJ [log in to unmask] ----Original Message----- From: Robert A. Fink, M.D. <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 4:56 PM Subject: "Temporary files" >The following appeared in a column in the San Francisco Chronicle >today: > >Q: "I discovered, to my distress, how many "temporary Internet files" >my hard disk was storing using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Many of >these are small, but the disk space consumed was far in excess of the >size of the contents. How do I tell Internet Explorer to limit the >length of time these files are stored?" > >A: "Temporary Internet files, also called 'cache' files, consist of >graphics and other elements of Web Pages [including "digital >signatures"]. When you visit a page for the first time, your browser >stores the "constant elements" of the Page so that it can be opened >faster on subsequent visits. Unfortunately, you can't set an >automatic expiration time for temporary Internet files. But you can >delete cached files and limit the amount of disk space they take up. >In Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options. In the General tab >you'll see a button for deleting temporary Internet files, and >another button called Settings, which lets you determine the maximum >amount of disk space for temporary files." (also, disable "Digital >Signatures") > >I have been making a pest of myself in complaining about the use of >Microsoft Internet Explorer/Outlook Express with its "special >features" enabled (the "default" setting when you get the program), >and how, for many of us, this results in e-mail messages coming with >"attachments" and other binary junk. The above question, asked in a >computer column in our local newspaper, addresses only the cluttering >of the *sender's* hard drive; this accumulation also occurs on the >*recipient's* hard drive. > >I am making a plea to those of you who use IE and/or Outlook >Express, to disable these "bells and whistles" when posting List >messages. Leaving them in place can cause crashes, clutter up one's >hard disk; and, in my case, will result in my not reading those >messages. > > >Best, > >Bob > >*********************************** > >ROBERT A. FINK, M. D., F.A.C.S. >Neurological Surgery >2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 >Berkeley, CA 94704-2636 USA >Phone: (510) 849-2555 FAX: (510) 849-2557 > >WWW: <http://www.dovecom.com/rafink/> > >mailto:[log in to unmask] > >"Ex Tristitia Virtus" > >***********************************