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Is there any harm to system in deleting .tmp files?

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hi!

Pl let me know if there is any problem

if i delete temp files.

my system running short of disk space.The temp files occupied upto 60 mb.

thanx.

regards

vens

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In a perfect world all .tmp files would automatically be deleated as the system finished using them.

I have noticed that there aren't half as many flying around under Win2k as there are under other OS's.

Delete the little space & cluster consuming gits.

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If you do a start/run/cmd

 

and then type in the command SET

 

Look at the lines:

 

TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\PHILLI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp

TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\PHILLI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp

 

That is where all temp files will go. You can redirect that if you wish by right-clicking on My computer/properties/Advanced/Environment Variables/

 

You'll see the 2 lines at the top. Don't mess with the stuff at the bottom unless you know what your doing.

 

If you redirect the TEMP files to another hard drive/partition you can save yourself from alot of fragmentation on your HD.

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Another good way to delete them in win98 and better is to use Disk Cleanup.

Open up My Computer, right-click on your hard drive and hit Properties. Then there's a button called 'Disk Cleanup . . .'

 

The nice thing about that is that it can delete the temp files in all profiles in Win2k (***uming your admin, of course)

 

[This message has been edited by JediBaron (edited 02 December 2000).]

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friend i had tried with the disk clean

but it is not at all recommending any of

the temp files to clean except some

files which are of 0.8mb

can i proceed manually deleting the temp

files which occupied most of my disk space?

thanx

regards

vens

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there shouldn't be any problems deleting *.tmp files but make sure u don't delete backup files that word makes- just incase ur computer crached when on ur document. that .tmp file saved me hours of work when my comp crashed

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