Disk Cleanup Tool

[Guest]

In an answer to my question of how to fix Disk Cleanup freezes, Plato gave me
two Microsoft articles. One article says to delete everything in the Temp
folder. When I try to do this I get promts telling me that they are system
files and may
cause damage if deleted. Shall I delete them anyway?

The other srticle says to go regedit. Step six says "delete the Compress
old files registry key". Does that mean to delete the folder with that name?

 

[David Candy]

1. Unknown

2. Yes

1 give details.

 

[David Candy]

There shouldn't be anything important in Temp but check before deleting.

 

[Plato]

There shouldn't be anything important in Temp but check before deleting.

Even if there is, it shouldn't be there in the first place.

 

[Guest]

It gives me ""Desktop is a system file. If you remove it your computer may
not work correctly." Desktop is in the Content IE5 folder and is file type
Configuation Settings and opens with notepad. I don't know if there are
others because when I say no to deleting Desktp the deleting process stops.

 

[Plato]

Some folks install software to their temp folder. Again, it shouldnt be
there. IT's often necessary to clean out temp folders to fix problems.
You dont want anything valuable there.