Disk cleanup

R

Rocky

Hi. I run Disk Cleanup from the system tools menu now and then to clean up
any unused files on the hard drive. For the heck of it, I went to "Search"
and typed in *.tmp and it came back with 800 tmp files. When I run Disk
Clean up, only a fraction are displayed, why is this? Most of the temp
files I found using "search" were a year or so old, so I don't think Disk
Clean up skipped them because they were in use? Thanks in advance for your
help.
 
S

Surok

I think Disk Cleanup only searches for .TMP files in the TEMP directory. The
files you found via search might have been located elsewhere.
 
P

Plato

Rocky said:
Hi. I run Disk Cleanup from the system tools menu now and then to clean up
any unused files on the hard drive. For the heck of it, I went to "Search"
and typed in *.tmp and it came back with 800 tmp files. When I run Disk
Click to expand...

Delete them.
 

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