Irritating Cache issue with Windows 7 and Vista

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Okay so i am really getting frustrated with windows 7 atm.

I am trying to install things from a server now usually when you open a program on windows over the network it opens immediately but vista and win7 has this irritating "thing" of caching the data for some reason how can i put it off?

Peder
 
Add the network location to your intranet or trusted sites zone...
 
Sorry, should have been more verbose.

Open Internet Options (through control panel or internet explorer), select the Security tab. Click on 'Local intranet', then click the 'Sites' button.
Untick "Automatically detect intranet network".
Click 'Advanced'.
Type in the address of the server you're trying to access. If it's a windows share the format would be 'file://ip.add.re.ss/*'.
You can use '*://ip.add.re.ss/*' to cover other protocols.
Ip ranges can be selected as well: '*://123.123.123.0-255/*'
 
thanx allot... i have been struggling with pc's for a while with that but today decided enough is enough, its a REALLY irritating function i must say! i mean i specifically set the network to privat network now it still wants to scan my stuff, without even telling me what the heck its doing.
 
It's a 'security feature'. Also responsible for the message you get when trying to run an exe that you copied from an untrusted location. Very irritating when using VPN on an ADSL line and trying to run a 10MB file from a network share... downloads it, then asks if you want to run it, then redownloads it when you click yes, then wastes a few extra MBs afterwards for good measure.
 
lol i think this thread pretty much somes up my views of Vista above XP. every single change has some sort of irritation or 'for good measure wasting your time' in it.
 
Is it a mapped network drive? There is some weird voodoo required to make the zone settings apply to them...
 
yeah its mapped... damn this thing is making me MAL! seems i am not permanently moving to win7, only gonna do it for video editing
 
Found a solution.
The problem occurs with mapping network drives to ip addresses... automatically gets put into the 'Internet' zone. So if you add an entry to your hosts file giving that ip address a random hostname eg: 'abcd' and then map a drive to 'abcd\share' then it'll appear in the right security zone.
 
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