Disable Websites From Downloading to Hard Drive

I was wondering if it's possible to prevent all the "temporary internet files" from downloading to my drive. (Other than not using the internet haha) Would it be possible to load them in the ram? I could set TEMP location to USB flash drive. I'm using Chrome.

 

It will NOT increase the life of the drive in any measurable way. It would however wear out a USB drive if you did what you suggest. They, unlike the hard drive, actually do have a maximum number of write cycles.

Gary

 

How about writing to ram or pagefile? It would be nice not to have to clean out temporary internet files ever week or so.

 

How would you propose to do either of these? And what makes you think you NEED to clean out the temp files? You can specify an amount of disk space to be used and your browser will take care of deleting old stuff for you.

First you talked about the need to minimize wear on the hard drive, now you are talking about "having to clean out temporary internet files". Not sure what your point really is?

Gary

 

Writing to the pagefile IS writing to the hard drive. That's where the pagefile is stored.

If you're worried about this, you should give FireFox a try (mentioned above).

 

I realize that, but... My pagefile gets cleared in shutdown so I don't have to clean anything manually and it's all on one file.

Thanks for the suggestion I've used one before, but not for this purpose. I'll look into it.

Think about it this way. You have a trash can a you throw trash in there everyday. Eventually it fills up and you have to take it out. After you suggested it wouldn't help the life of hard drive, I figured oh well. To be honest, I just don't like how web browsers download all the junk relative to a page when you only view it one time. Why not eliminate the downloading? Obviously it's trivial, but I was curious. And really it shouldn't matter what my point is.

Also, Garry remember this thread:

Here's your proof: http://www.overclockers.com/defrag-frag/

 

Set up an automated Ccleaner process

 

To use your analogy, the internet cache is a magic garbage can. When it gets full it empties itself. You don't have to do anything. It takes out the trash all by itself.

I am still waiting for the proof of SUBSTANTIAL difference you claimed. The one test you showed shows no substantial difference at all. It does show some variance in the minimum times. But the average times, which are the numbers that really matter, were changed very little. I never claimed there was NO difference in a severely fragmented file system, which is what was "tested" in this flawed study. What I said was, that I disagreed with your assertion that there was a SUBSTANTIAL difference. And I still do.

But let's not hijack this thread for that discussion. If you want to discuss this point further lets go back to the original thread.

Gary

 

That's what I want: Or even avoid the filling up

 

Like Gary said, it already happens automagically. Or, you can set the size of the internet cache to its minmum, which is 8MB. Hope that's small enough for you. Otherwise, I have long given up trying to talk sense into the various OCD-afflicted people I encounter, on this forum in particular...

 

This sounds like someone is obsessing over old, obsolete advice.

 

Then you need to do nothing. It is automatic.

Gary

 

Ya think?

Gary

 

Simple : Do not open your Web browser.

 

My idea was by no means necessary, I was curious about the options. @coolguy, look at my 1st post.

I'm aware that you can change the size of the file cache in IE, but does that actually carry over to other browsers? I wouldn't think so. It still doesn't prevent the files from downloading.

 

To the OP, you're using Chrome which (for some reason) is VERY strict in not letting the user customize much of anything. It's in no way like Firefox, Opera or eve IE where you can adjust dozens of different parameters.

So you can't write Chrome cached files to RAM. You can by indirect means of command line switches, change where the cache is on your disk and how much data to store there (by default I think it's ~95mb), but that's all.

Some quick reading.

 

Thanks for the info, I was looking for something like that.