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"Temp Folder"

C:WINDOWSTEMP

How would I go by cleaning out this place?

It's full of little files and programs that I never use anymore!

Is there a cleanup program I can get?

I've used the system cleanup thing but that only cleaned the C:TEMP folder...

Or can I just delete everything in it? I'm guessing that will be a mega no no!

Thanks

I had 2.3gb.

My downstairs PC which is older had 70mb.

Hmmm

Removed all mine the other day.

Little off topic, just opened my temp internet files folder and there is over 400MB in there

Just deleting over 30 000 files.
Never realised I had that much crap stored on this laptop.
:-)

500kb here, heh.

On the plus side my PC boots up much faster now...

I had 800 meg in mine, which is a lot considering I've only got a 20 gig HD...

I now get an error from something when I start up, nothing has stopped working so it can't be important, I'll have a look next time I load up...

Also, I can't run scandisk because it keeps restarting for some reason? I want to do the thorugh scan but it gets so far and it restarts?

Why?

I've got it in safe mode when I do it but it still restarts? I've got errors on my drive so defrag doesn't want to work...

Argh!

Wow, I checked mine and it was almost 2gb big! :| Got rid of it all and installed ut2k3 taking all the space up again :)

If my computer dies when I do this I'll hold you respo

... and just to show how confident I am, I've just deleted everything in mine, files and sub-folders included :)

Temp folder only holds files that are used for a little while, like when you install a program, or when you downloaded a video clip from the Internet which you only want to watch.

Anything that is required by any program installing any data will be put in a proper folder, not left in the TEMP folder.

You are free to just delete everything in it if you like :)

OK, I'm going to restart up in safe mode to make sure that no programs are running...

I'm then gonna delete all of the files...

I'll leave the folder there though!

What about the subsolders though?

Help!?