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.

<font color="snow">Quickest way to do this is to go Start --> Find, and search for *.tmp - anything that comes up can be deleted. </font>

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.

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 ]

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 ------------