Please help me out

theholyavenger · 09-16-2002, 01:25 AM

In my windows folder, i've checked the properties of my TEMP folder and it shows that it contains more than 700MB of files! Are the files in the TEMP folder essential? Or can i just delete the folder and replace the directory with an empty one? Please help me out, I'm using Win ME. Thanks.

Scholarcs · 09-16-2002, 01:51 AM

Quickest way to do this is to go Start --> Find, and search for *.tmp - anything that comes up can be deleted.

Night Stalker · 09-16-2002, 01:56 AM

You can generaly get rid of anything in Temp. This is sometime recomended if sys performance takes a nose dive. Make sure you have properly saved and finished any Word or Excel files (or any work you have been doing) because temp is where Office actually creates and stores the file while you are working on it (this is how they do autorecover Moni!) until you save your changes. After that, everything else should be game. Files stored in temp are by convention not permenant. Programs that do use temp are supposed to clean up after themselves but they don't always. On that note, always use the shut down feature of Windows to turn off you PC. This is one way files get stranded in temp. Let Windows and other programs close "nicely" and clean up memory and temp.

Blade · 09-16-2002, 01:13 PM

Another good way if you have a newer OS is to click on the drive properties and one of the options should be disk cleanup its an eazy way to get rid of temp net files and mis. junk that clutters up your drive.

[ 09-16-2002, 01:14 PM: Message edited by: Blade ]

Jorath Calar · 09-16-2002, 01:19 PM

You can always delete everything in the TEMP folder, it's just files that the computer has used temporarly, if it is still needed then it is in use and can't be deleted... so wipe them out... all of them

And here is an old DOS trick if you want to avoid the files stacking up then add this to you Autoexec.bat

rm ------------
del *.* c:\windows\temp /y
deltree * c:\windows\temp /y
rm ------------

09-16-2002, 01:25 AM	#1
theholyavenger Manshoon Join Date: February 27, 2002 Location: Faerun Age: 41 Posts: 205	In my windows folder, i've checked the properties of my TEMP folder and it shows that it contains more than 700MB of files! Are the files in the TEMP folder essential? Or can i just delete the folder and replace the directory with an empty one? Please help me out, I'm using Win ME. Thanks. __________________ \"There once was a warrior true,<br />with the sense knocked out of him, too.<br />But in a hamster he found,<br />some wisdom profound,<br />and now where goes he goes his Boo!\"<br /><br />~Crazy Celvan in Baldur\'s Gate II Shadows of Amn

09-16-2002, 01:51 AM	#2
Scholarcs Red Dragon Join Date: December 5, 2001 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 39 Posts: 1,557	Quickest way to do this is to go Start --> Find, and search for *.tmp - anything that comes up can be deleted. __________________ <br />\"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five\" - Groucho Marx<br />Member of the ORT Clan. <br />\"Some birds are not meant to be caged because their feathers are too bright\"<br />Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n\'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s\'affaissent au cachot du désespoir. - Aimé Césaire<br />La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l\'on n\'a pas ri. - Sébastien Roch Nicolas

09-16-2002, 01:56 AM	#3
Night Stalker Lord Ao Join Date: June 24, 2002 Location: Nevernever Land Age: 51 Posts: 2,002	You can generaly get rid of anything in Temp. This is sometime recomended if sys performance takes a nose dive. Make sure you have properly saved and finished any Word or Excel files (or any work you have been doing) because temp is where Office actually creates and stores the file while you are working on it (this is how they do autorecover Moni!) until you save your changes. After that, everything else should be game. Files stored in temp are by convention not permenant. Programs that do use temp are supposed to clean up after themselves but they don't always. On that note, always use the shut down feature of Windows to turn off you PC. This is one way files get stranded in temp. Let Windows and other programs close "nicely" and clean up memory and temp. __________________ [url]\"http://www.duryea.org/pinky/gurkin.wav\" target=\"_blank\">AYPWIP?</a> .... <img border=\"0\" alt=\"[1ponder]\" title=\"\" src=\"graemlins/1ponder.gif\" /> <br />\"I think so Brain, but isn\'t a cucumber that small called a gherkin?\"<br /><br />Shut UP! Pinky!

09-16-2002, 01:13 PM	#4
Blade Emerald Dragon Join Date: March 12, 2001 Location: spokane wa usa Age: 41 Posts: 926	Another good way if you have a newer OS is to click on the drive properties and one of the options should be disk cleanup its an eazy way to get rid of temp net files and mis. junk that clutters up your drive. [ 09-16-2002, 01:14 PM: Message edited by: Blade ] __________________ <br /><br />All blades cut, be they made from metal or wood, but the sharpest and deadliest blade is the one of knowledge, and that is the least used.<br />An Archmage of the HADB

09-16-2002, 01:19 PM	#5
Jorath Calar Harper Join Date: October 6, 2001 Location: Iceland Posts: 4,706	You can always delete everything in the TEMP folder, it's just files that the computer has used temporarly, if it is still needed then it is in use and can't be deleted... so wipe them out... all of them And here is an old DOS trick if you want to avoid the files stacking up then add this to you Autoexec.bat rm ------------ del . c:\windows\temp /y deltree * c:\windows\temp /y rm ------------

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