Amdrial wrote: I didn't like the Windows 7 theme, so I changed it to the classic one. |
I thought that one went out with the Dinosaurs.
I don't like the default layout either, but would never revert to using the classic theme: it's dreadful. Have you looked at Classic Shell? http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/features.html
But I'm straying off-topic....
Maybe Opera functions differently than other browsers? A quick perusal of Flash related issues on Opera turns up quite a few issues which Opera says they're working on.
Maybe you could experiment with another browser. You can get Firefox from here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/
You'll have to install Flash and Shockwave For Director which you can get from here:
Man, xircal, you sure can spout a lot of weird shi...stuff.
All besides the point of this user's question.
All which made me waste 5 minute of my life... I'll bill you for that!
Next time stick to the question and stop splurging so much nonsense, help, if you're here to do so, otherwise just shut up!
THE REAL HELP FOR THIS USER'S QUESTION:
Browsers and flash alike keep the bigger files in a cache directory. That may be in Users\user\appdata\local\temp or in windows\temp or in the browser's own cache directory.
Google for link shell extension. It's a user friendly context menu helper, so that you don't have to use command line tools to create symbolic links.
You need either an extra harddrive, other than the system drive, or lots of ram (16G's) and a ramdrive application. Anyway, have a spare non-removable drive ready, partition it and give it a letter, lets say letter T:, if you don't already have one. D: works fine as well.
Show all files in explorer including system files and hidden files.
On this T: you'll be putting all temp related stuff. Create a directory like local_temp, right click it, select Pick Link Source, now go to
Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local
delete the Temp folder there and right click on empty space, Drop As... Symbolic link, name it Temp and you're done with this one. It will have a green shortcut arrow, that is a symlink.
If Temp won't delete, you need a fresh OS restart and make sure there are no running applications which have some file already open there. Sysinternals Process Explorer will allow you to see and close handles per application, in the Find Menu, just enter Temp and it will list all open handles, just those that have the type File you will be to close, Del key or right clock > close handle. This is in case a restart won't clear the issue.
Now every time an application thinks will write files to that Temp folder, in reality the OS will divert the write operations to T:\local_temp\.
Same can be created for the Cache directory of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or acro_rd_dir in the Temp folder mentioned above (Flash latest invention).
There is also a Temp in Windows.
Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer is also a common IO cycle waster, there thumbs for folders, including images and file stack icons are set. This can also be moved this way to same some space and flash erase cycles.
Same for plain files, but they work with a twist, more in LSE's download page.
This is so that you can manage and dictate locations without being forced to use in-application settings, which might get reset, lost or not work. Some of the locations mentioned above could have been set in their respective applications but I've already posted the reasons why not to use that and go for symbolic links instead.
This works best in Windows 7 and up.
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