Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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jen&joe06
One thing I noticed about the knot/bump/nest is that even if you have it turned off so you do not accept "cookies" it still downloads a lot of pics to your temp files (and not the one's that you delete by going to internet options - delete temp internet files or delete cookies). I deleted over 20,000 pics off of my computer (dated for the last 2 months) recently that the nest/knot had dumped onto my computer. Everything from tickers to siggy pics to links. Brutal.
Please forgive my computer ignorance. But how would I know if all those files are on my computer. Where would they be? I am lost after deleting temp files and cookies. How would I find and get rid of these files? My computer has been SUPER slow and the last time I did a virus check it said there were over 600,000 files on my computer. I don't download much and pretty much only use my computer for surfing, email, facebook, nest and photos. I do have a few thousand photos, but not that many! Maybe the Nest is part of my problem.
Re: jen&joe06
There are a few ways.
1. Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools - Internet Options. Here you will be able to 'delete cookies' and 'delete temporary internet files'.
2. C drive - Program Files - Windows - Temp
Also - I don't have the same set up on my home computer as I do on my work laptop but on that one I went to the C drive and then went through each folder. I found one called Temporary Internet Files and one called Cookies. These were for some reason not emptied out when I had done #1. This is where I found the 20,000 pics related to the nest.
Edit - Run a search for folders name 'Cookies' and 'Temporary Internet Files'. That can help you locate them as well.
Also check your recycle bin. You may have a lot of files in there. If you find anything doing #2 or #3 it will go into your recycle bin.
Photos can take up a lot of space so that could be causing your computer to run slower. We have a whole separate drive for photos which helps but also I save them to an external harddrive and then delete them off of our computer once in awhile. I find that helps.