Anybody who knows XP well out there?

[serai]

I've got a question.

When I was using Windows 98, if there was a video or audio clip that I downloaded from the web and wanted to save, I could just go into the Windows section on my C: drive, go to Temporary Internet Files, find the file, copy it and paste it into any file of my choice on my hard drive. But now with XP, I find that isn't the case. I can't find where the computer is caching the temporary files. I tried searching, telling XP to look in hidden folders - nothing. I did find a folder called "Temporary Internet Files" but the damn thing is completely empty!

Does anyone know where those files would be going, or if this is even possible in XP? I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't. Fucking Microsoft never seem to know when to leave anything alone; they've always got to fuck with things that work just fine. *grrr*

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this for me.

Comments

[dotty23.livejournal.com]

I thin if you know the name you could just search it, it will most likely turn up.
Or you could search all files that were added today. in the search menu you can define date and file type and stuff like that.
Or you could just right.click on the link and say save-target-as, that is most likely to work I think
hope that helps

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately that's not the situation here. I tried telling the machine to look for files from today, and nothing. And the video isn't a click-and-download one; it comes up in one of those Apple/Quicktime pages. When I had 98, I could get those from the Temp Files folder, but as I said, I can't find the damn things now.

Thanks for answering, though!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

IE or firefox? In IE, go to Tools menu, Internet Options, Click on the Settings button for Temporary Internet Files, then click on "View Objects" - it'll open up the folder.

However, places are now doing streaming which deletes the downloaded file as soon as you finish viewing.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will try this.

*sigh* It used to be easier. Oh well, I better stop bitching before I start sounding like somebody's gramma telling a story about slogging ten miles to school in the snow.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

*cackles agedly*

"When I started, web pages were GREY and you couldn't show a picture!"

Sadly, that's true ;) Been on the web since the get-go. go here to see what it looked like (http://www.dejavu.org/)

Heehee!

[serai1.livejournal.com]

"When I started, web pages were GREY and you couldn't show a picture!"

And we LIKED it!!

Re: Heehee!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the niftiest damned thing since......BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS!

Me and my little 9600 baud modem ;)

Re: Heehee!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Correction - I think I still had a 1200 baud then?

Re: Heehee!

[jewelsong.livejournal.com]

My brother remembers working in the computer lab in High School, where you hooked the phone up to the "big" computer.

It used a 110 baud modem. You could hear it go click-click-click as it sent the info...

This was in...oh...1975 or so.

Re: Heehee!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I remember that. I graduated HS in 1980 :)

but I didn't play with *those* computers. They were only for the math geeks. I was a good little Liberal Arts girl, and hopeless at math. And no one would want to be on a computer except for math purposes, right? *grin*

How I ended up doing programming on them by 85 is a mystery ;)

[ex-rogerpit.livejournal.com]

Someone's gramma, eh? I can remember when the Atari 2600 was the highlight of my day. Along with those little Midway personal video games with the really tiny controllers.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sonny, I remember playing Advent back in 1975 on a chunky little terminal wired to a Cray, via the phone line, no less. Who cared if you wanted to kill that fucking bird that wouldn't stop singing, or if you went crazy trying to navigate that right-turn-left-turn maze? The computer actually answered you back like you were talking with it! Major revelation, lol!

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

This may not be of much help, but I've found that when the thing is sent to my Temp files, the best way to find it is to find the Download Manager (Netscape, in my case) and tell it to show the file location, or to launch the file. Then, I have control over where the thing gets stored. There are times, I hate to admit, when I've actually done a download just to get at the Download manager and find a file there that I'd lost. Obviously, I'm no expert; just one who's tinkered clumsily.

I really, really hate Windows!

Catherine

[ex-rogerpit.livejournal.com]

You think you hate Windows XP now...just wait until Windows Vista comes out next year. It promises to be SO much better (though I refuse to hold my breath on that one).

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I for one have no intention of going any further with this. I'm not interested in running big games, or doing any other fancy footwork. The only reason I even switched to XP is there are a few programs I wanted that won't run on 98. But I've still got 98 on my hard drive in a second partition, and I go there now and then when XP turns up its nose at something I want to do.

By the by, have you noticed the irony in the emoticon meaning of XP?

[ex-rogerpit.livejournal.com]

By the by, have you noticed the irony in the emoticon meaning of XP?

Truthfull, no I hadn't...but now that you mention it, it DOES look odd. Maybe that's why Microsoft decided to go with a name instead of using acronyms this time around. They already have a code name for the successor to Windows Vista (which, with the current MS track record, will likely be out sometime in 2020). The new version will be code named Blackcomb. I just hope they don't shorten to Windows BC. That would be TOO funny.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Oh for cryin' out loud. They haven't got Vista out yet, and already they're making a new one? Why the hell don't they polish their OS's up completely before they go gadding off to make more of them? Christ, it's like the whole company has ADD or something.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

You have expressed my thoughts exactly.

Catherine

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear God, no! I know I live under a rock, but I've no idea how I didn't catch wind of this until now, especially since my husband works in the field (for a different company)! *kicks husband*

I dread Microsoft's OS releases with the quaking of a thousand major tectonic shifts. There really should be dirges composed for the occasions, were it not for the publicity it would generate for the very entity whose work we despise.

Thank you for the news (I think); it helps me to settle my affairs, and put off buying the next laptop. Or maybe I'll just go with a Mac.

Catherine

[shoesparks.livejournal.com]

ThereIs a way to do this....
Here is the answer you want and it is simple!
Open file My Documents...
under Tools, open Folder Options
Under the View tab , Uncheck all the boxes that say Hide
then Apply..
Open temporary internet file
In your Internet Options also make sure to uncheck the box that says:
Empty Temp. internet file when closes...
And I also make and put a shortcut to the temp file on my task bar...
good luck...Shoe