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 Apr 16 2006, 08:17 PM
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 To INSANITY and BEYOND !!  Group: Moderator Posts: 7,820 Joined: 10-September 04 From: NJ USA Member No.: 2,608  |
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Apr 16 2006, 10:45 PM
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 Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 5,767 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
Winrar is a program used to unpack files that have been compressed into various formats. Officially it is described as an archiver. Are you maybe talking about a program with a similar name? The Winrar that I am familiar with does not download anything.
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Apr 17 2006, 03:51 PM
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To INSANITY and BEYOND !! Group: Moderator Posts: 7,820 Joined: 10-September 04 From: NJ USA Member No.: 2,608 |
Thanks for the reply
http://www.rarlab.com/ It's the one from that link My daughter put it on my family PC. Perhaps downloading was the wrong term. She said it makes it easier to mail pix. I just don't understand how to use it. There is a long list of files. Her pix another stuff. Some files when I click OPEN are in computer languge. What caught my eye were some of the gif files were to a site I recently visited. Page info stuff, banner etc. I didn't open or execute anything to put info into WinRAR. Again I don't undersstand the workings. It is now a fairly large set of files most of which appear to be junk. so my other question is can I safely delete all this stuff? -------------------- Can you spare some PC cycles to help FIND A CURE .. BC FOLDING TEAM Click me /info..
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Apr 17 2006, 04:06 PM
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Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 5,767 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
That's Winrar, and it is merely an archiver. When she says it makes it easier to email pictures, it is because it will put them all together in a bundle and compress them. Once they are made smaller, they can be more easily transported over the Internet. They can also be pasword protected to keep people from opening the complresed files.
In all liklihood, when you open the application, it is looking at the directory containing the browser temp files. That would be why you see files with weird names, plus images of sites recently visited. Open IE and flush the cache, and then see if those files are still there. It is nothing to worry about. What is the OS you are running? If you have XP. it has a zip capability built right in, and there is no need to even have winrar, unless someone needs to open .rar. files, which are not as common. -------------------- |
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Apr 17 2006, 05:38 PM
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To INSANITY and BEYOND !! Group: Moderator Posts: 7,820 Joined: 10-September 04 From: NJ USA Member No.: 2,608 |
Much appreciated,groovicus. I understand the principle and process. Yes btw I use XP Pro. My son also need to get it to open some thing. So I just clear the casche and it and just leave it if they ever need it.
-------------------- Can you spare some PC cycles to help FIND A CURE .. BC FOLDING TEAM Click me /info..
ThoughtVent a goodplace to discuss.<<>>>Staying Updated Calendar of Updates. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.... |
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