DG's misc. help

[DarkGrievous7145]

...somehow, I'm not shocked these weren't answered. All anyone knows about on this dang forum is that Nintendo games go into the cart slot

Anyone have any idea why screenshots would suddenly start appearing in temp? Besides this is a waste of space, I obviously do not like the idea that those are being retained. Some of the screenshots I take have somewhat sensitive information, like my private email address, or the "spam filter key" to my only currently active yahoo email address. It seems odd they'd just suddenly start appearing in the temp folder. Far as I can tell, nothing with critical details was archived/potentially leaked, but still... I'm pretty sure that screenshots are only supposed to be stored either in memory or the clipboard cache, (both extremely temporary) unless explicitly saved by the user, right?

Well, you kinda answered your own question. They're going somewhere, and not being deleted. lol


You might want to try cleaning up your temporary files. There's a menu in Windows that lets you clean up your caches and Windows Updates stuff, etc. called "Disk Cleanup". 
Might be worth taking a look.

I'd suggest Piriform's two free apps: CCleaner (first C's for Crap - it cleans all the crap up, including old registry keys) and Defraggler (a little better, and friendlier than MS' defragmentation tool).
Since you're using one of the few hundred PCs in the US running XP, it's not a bad idea to actually do this once in a while since your OS doesn't do it manually.

I haven't seen any more screenshots in temp lately

now, something i've meant to ask for a while.

While we were on vacation, the resort we stayed at had wifi for us to look up to.
Despite this, however, my mom's data use on her iphone still went up. Somehow, it was up to like 75% by the time we returned. We know, or at least, are pretty sure, that the phone was using the resort's wifi most of the time. Yet, if this is the case, why did the data continue to get used?

There's a setting on your iPhone circa 5 that causes you to still use data whilst being connected to Wifi (for like connection services and whatnot) and the reason being is that it'll automatically choose the other based on which has better speeds. That feature's called "Wifi Assist". So if your LTE is getting 20Mbps down while the hotel Wifi has 5Mbps up, it's going to continue using LTE - and use the Wifi to compensate for like the 5Mbps of speed.

To turn it off, go to Settings > Mobile Data then scroll to the bottom of the page. You can turn off "Wifi Assist" from there.

and another phone issue...

MESSENGER...

there any way to fix it?
My mom cannot open it, though the alerts from it still come in
multiple attempts have been made to update it, both when the phone was logged-into a wifi network, and when it was just using the data straight from the service provider. I've read various things about how to supposedly fix it, none have worked. I've read reviews saying that app is just a worthless piece of trash that doesn't particularly work at all...

So, any ideas?

Cache is borked? Uninstall the app and reinstall it. It'll wipe that cache right up. Messenger's data is stored on Facebook's servers, so it's not like you're going to lose anything

...also, you're going to inherit this phone once she upgrades, right ;D

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I'll have to check that out

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hmm... Well, we'll see... also, I'm currently the scapegoat since it just happened to quit working after hooking-up to the wifi, supposedly. But the dates also coincide with the recent updates no one likes, so...
(being the house I.T. guy is just awesome... >.>)

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umm... I actually am not on the smartphone/tablet hype train
I'd de-rail them if I could
IDK, maybe, maybe not...
I might even end-up with my own, then rarely/never use it!