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Quote:  “Yes, although not practical with a laptop.”

True, but in that case, or a situation where it is impossible or impractical to prevent the fan from spinning whilst blowing air through it, then the blowing of air must be limited to short bursts so as to prevent over-spinning the fan.

As always, just my opinion!

Montana Bob

[b]

Randy,

Just read your piece on eliminating dust from our computers.  Excellent advice!

That said, I would add that one must be careful to not over-spin the fans when blowing them out.  I actually prevent the fan from spinning by putting my finger between the blades, before the fan begins to spin!  Then you can blow to your heart’s content to remove all of the mice, poodle dogs and elephants without damaging the fan.  In an extreme situation, allowing the fan to gain speed could actually cause the fan to deform or even explode.  The fan bearing could even be damaged.

As always, just my opinion!

Montana Bob

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[Elly]

I had a similar situation a year or so ago with my main computer which is running Win 7 64 bit.  Files were also being created in the Windows/Temp folders.  They were all small, averaging less than a Mb each.  It reached a point where my C drive, an SSD, was filled within less than a 100 Mb of being totally filled, scary as heck!  I tried all manner of deletion methods and utils.  (I did find a good one that I still use on occasion, Temp File Cleaner by Oldtimer.)  Searched all over the web and found that others were having the same issue but no one had a solution.  I used WinDirStat to try and identify what the files were and their source and nuttin’!  WDS showed the area, (graphically and in the file list), of the drive occupied by the mystery files, nearly all of the open space at one point, and total area that the files occupied, but they were shown as  “Unknown”.  The volume of the files and their number started slowing on their own, to a point where I could manage them.  The only way that I was able to remove them was to restore my drive image from a previous day, (I create a DI every evening using Acronis True Image.  That habit has saved my a__ more than once!),  TI disregards any temp or recycle bin files.  For a while, the files continued to create themselves albeit at a slower rate.  The situation occasionally crops every so often to this day, but to very minor degree, so I just restore the previous day’s DI to clean out the files.  I have never found the cause and that drives me nuts to the present.  As a Mechanical Engineer in Manufacturing, I am highly analytical and nothing frosts me more that not being able to determine the cause of a problem.  Anyway, it was weird as heck!  Just thought that I’d post it, although it’s not the same situation that the other gentleman/lady poster was experiencing but similar in result.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution.

I used to tell all of my employees that they should not come to me with problems unless they’d discovered a solution, and here I am doing just that!

Edit:  I forgot to mention that the extension was <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>not</span> “EVTX” and, unfortunately, I do not remember what the extension was.

Montana Bob

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• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Elly.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Montana Bob. Reason: Clarification of file type