I have a question about What to Throw Away:

In my C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder, along with all the deletable files, there are sub-folders in there as well. Are they safe to delete too?

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Personally I delete my temp folder every day or more at least. So far I have had no bad side effects.

generally, yes. if you're not sure, move them for a week or so. if nothing happens, they're probably safe to delete.

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As Cosmic Skeptic and amaralliya said, it's generally safe to delete these folders. I have been using autoexec. bat to delete them on boot for a couple years now with no problem. My findings have been that these folders are the booger that causes files to accumulate in the Temp folder. When there are no folders there, windows deletes all files each time it boots.

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Thank you all for your responses. I'm going to move the folders into another location first, then see what happens in the next couple days, but based on your responses I can't see a problem developing. Thanks again! This whole site is excellent!! (I even bought the book :-) )


On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 9:25 pm, br wrote:
>As Cosmic Skeptic and amaralliya said, it's generally safe to delete these folders.
>I have been using autoexec. bat to delete them on boot for a couple years now with
>no problem. My findings have been that these folders are the booger that causes files
>to accumulate in the Temp folder. When there are no folders there, windows deletes
>all files each time it boots.

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What are in the subfolders?? I'm just curious as to whether you checked them out or not. I didn't know the Windows temp folder could have subfolders? CJ


On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 8:14 pm, CellarDweller wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:

In my C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder, along with all the deletable files,
>there are sub-folders in there as well. Are they safe to delete too?
>
>

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On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 8:22 pm, Cosmic Skeptic wrote:
>Personally I delete my temp folder every day or more at least. So far I have had
>no bad side effects.
>
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You're right, I hadn't actually checked them out - so I just did. They appear to be more installation type files, with older dates. I know for a fact there are many I don't need, so my guess is they're safe to delete.


On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 10:45 pm, CJ wrote:
>What are in the subfolders?? I'm just curious as to whether you checked them out
>or not. I didn't know the Windows temp folder could have subfolders?
>
>CJ
>
>

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Here's the line to add to autoexec.bat to delete your temp files every time you boot:

deltree /y c:\windows\temp\ >NUL

Bob Sturtevant  http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
Please reply in the forum and let us know.

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   HOW TO SAFELY DELETE TEMP FOLDER CONTENTS
Here's how we do it. Before Windows starts up, our changes to AUTOEXEC.BAT tell the 
DOS operating system to clean out the Temp folder. This works MUCH better than trying 
to clean out the Temp folder while Windows is running. Then Windows starts up with 
a clean, empty Temp folder. Your PC regains its former speed and gets back a lot 
of storage space.
   But I'm giving you fair warning that this method is not foolproof. If you are 
installing a program and you see a message that tells you to restart Windows or reboot 
the computer, that program could be storing something very important in the Temp 
folder to use when Windows reboots. This is stupid and should never be done, but 
even Microsoft's own software does it.
   So you can't ever assume that it's OK to clean out the Temp folder during a reboot. 
If you're installing a new program, obviously that's a bad time. If Windows is doing 
some of its own installations, that's also a bad time. Use my cleanup method ONLY 
at the first bootup of the day. Don't use it at any other time.
   Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT by using the RUN command in the Start Menu and typing SYSEDIT 
and pressing Enter. Simply put these lines at the bottom -- they MUST be at the bottom 
-- of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then close the SYSEDIT window and save the file. SYSEDIT 
will ask if you want to save it:
----------------------------------------------------------
   echo "This will eliminate everything from the Temp folder."
   echo "If you have just installed a program and rebooted,"
   echo "press Ctrl-C to cancel this step."
   pause
   c:
   cd windows
   deltree /y temp
   md temp
----------------------------------------------------------   
That's It !
<(~_~)>






On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 8:14 pm, CellarDweller wrote:
>I have a question about What 
>to Throw Away:
In my C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder, along with all the deletable 
files, 
>there are sub-folders in there as well. Are they safe to delete too?
>
>

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