Tag Archives: windows

IE6: The goddamn hidden cache

Aside from the ‘goddamn’, this article title may sound like a good movie name.  Anyway, it turns out that IE has a hidden cache of temporary internet files (TIFs).  Big deal, right?  Everyone and their grandmother knows that Windows/IE/MS-products-in-general and even software-in-general have these caches of files for whatever reason – sometimes good, sometimes not …

June 4, 2009 – 8:42 pm | By james | Posted in windows pains | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Killing me softly: Searchindexer.exe

Do you have a process that won’t die? Tired of searchindexer.exe calling you at home to harrass you for the rent? Do you have credit card debt? Your solution is here! OK, what you want to do to prevent searchindexer.exe (searchprotocolhost.exe) from spawning every time some MS product loads, just follow these simple steps: Start …

January 22, 2008 – 9:04 am | By james | Posted in software | Tagged , , , | Comments (36)