folder Temp role

[gmrad]

There is a folder Documents and Settings\user\Local Setting\Temp with a lot
of different files in it. Can I delete at least some of them? If your answer
is yes where can I find the information on those, which I can delete?

 

[Stephen White]

You can delete them all, by nature of the folder. They are files only need temporally.

Say you download something from the internet but do not save to a location, but open it instead, the file is written there temporally.


File Type: Temporary File

File Extension: .tmp

Description: This file is created by applications to store information temporarily.



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There is a folder Documents and Settings\user\Local Setting\Temp with a lot
of different files in it. Can I delete at least some of them? If your answer
is yes where can I find the information on those, which I can delete?

 

[ebeck]

Hi,
It would probably help a lot if you listed the files that
are in that folder here. Otherwise it's really hard to
answer your question without possibly messing up.

Thanks!
E.

 

[gmrad]

It seems to me that, in its main part, folders that get in the Temp folder

arose after some application was installed. It follows at least from their
names: install, for example. As far as there are a lot of files in some of
folders, and I am lazy enough, I try to give for example list of files for
one of the shortest ones: file_id.diz, license.txt, order.frm, order.txt,
readme.txt, setup.exe, whatsnew.txt. There are folders with names as
_ISTMP2.DIR-_ISTMP_12.DIR. As for me all of them are identical and differ
only in time being created. ini file is Adobe Installer Internal
Configuration file. May I delete them all? There is the cddb folder with
only one file in it: cddb.db. An so on. I'm not sure I can delete all
folders and files in Temp folder because it contains for example such
folders as cookies, default, history. But why these are in the Temp folder?