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Temp files not really necessary
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Temp files not really necessary
Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 8:26 am
Posted by Liz Calkins
(1 messages posted)
I disagree with the assertion in "What
to Throw Away" that the temp files in Windows/Temp should not be thrown away.
I regularly empty that folder once a day, and have not had any ill effects whatsoever.
On the off chance that a program was using a .tmp file at the time I tried to delete
it, Windows would simply pop up a message saying that it was in use and couldn't
be deleted. And if you don't have any programs running when you try to delete the
.tmp files, then it's highly unlikely that any of them are still necessary.
If anything, I would highly recommend keeping the folder as empty as possible, since
it helps free up space.
Peace & Luv, Liz
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re: Temp files not really necessary
Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 8:55 am
Posted by phantom
(5578 messages posted)
Liz: It doesn't say not to throw away TEMP files. It says to keep only the current
ones.
Phantom)
On Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 8:26 am, Liz Calkins wrote:
>I disagree with the assertion in "What
>to Throw Away" that the temp files in Windows/Temp should not be thrown away.
>I regularly empty that folder once a day, and have not had any ill effects whatsoever.
>
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re: Temp files not really necessary
Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:49 am
Posted by Courtney
(23 messages posted)
She was saying that even the ones with a current
date are not necessary either. I tend to agree.
If it really needs the files, you won't be able to
delete them at that time.
On Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 8:55 am, Dick Benke wrote:
>Liz: It doesn't say not to throw away TEMP files. It says to keep only the current
>ones.
>Phantom)
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re: Temp files not really necessary
Saturday, October 30, 2004 at 12:28 am
Posted by John A
(1 messages posted)
On Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:49 am, Courtney wrote:
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>She was saying that even the ones with a current
>date are not necessary either. I tend to agree.
>If it really needs the files, you won't be able to
>delete them at that time.
Add this to your autoexec.bat file:
deltree /y c:\windows\temp\*.*
That will give you a clean temp dir every boot. It even removes subdirectories.
You may need to remark (rem) it out or uncheck it in msconfig to do the occasional
program install that uses the temp dir or a subdir to hold files to install on a
reboot, but that's rare.
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