There are many applications like Browsers & Instant Messengers which we keep installing across multiple PC's. Companies like Yahoo, Microsoft & many others have adopted a strange strategy from past few years wherein they provide Installers which require Internet connection while the installation is in progress. Thats because the Installers that we download from their web sites are just shortcuts to the complete list of files actually required for the installation. The files are stored on their Servers, which get downloaded each & every time we initiate such an installation. We can call them ONLINE installers & not the OFFLINE installers which were quite prevalent few years back. Though there might not have been any version change when you moved from one PC to another, but since these are Online installers, the installation requires repeated download of files onto the Application specific Temporary Installation Folder during the installation. Excluding some cases, most of them get stored in deep nested folders inside your Hard Disk making it difficult to a regular user to track such folders. This results in unnecessary Bandwidth usage for repeated tasks, something which can be reduced using your Brains.
How do we do that? Its simple. Whenever an installer is executed just run your Anti-Virus application & track the files that are currently being scanned by your Anti-Virus application's Real-time Scanning module, & this is where the trick lies. A screen-shot from Avast Anti-Virus is shown below.
After observing the scanning for a couple of minutes you would soon be able to track the Temporary Installation Folder for that application. This requires you to be a little bit tech savvy. For example, while the Yahoo Messenger installer is executed, just goto Start -> Run -> %TEMP%
Try this trick yourself & save on precious Bandwidth.
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