Huge disk files

[Ken]

I've got XP Professional on a recently purchase PC. In the
last week suddenly my main drive (C: 49GB) is fully loaded.
there are 3 mystery files in my C:/windows/Temp folder:

hp26.tmp 25GB
hp1F.tmp 12.3 GB
hpDE.tmp 760 MB

1) I had trouble printing a web page on my HP 600 printer.
Are theses files the result? hp** looks suspicious

2) Can these files be safely removed (deleted)

3) any idea how they got there?


Many thx in advance for any help

KEN

 

[Michael Ortega]

Hello Ken,

That's quite odd, perhaps its some form of HP update? You should be able to
use Disk Clean Up to remove those file. I cant think of anything that would
use a 25GB file or would even need it.

 

[Guest]

A 490Gb hard drive fully loaded?

What have you stored - the full series of star wars movies?

Windows needs approx 20% free hard disk space to run a disk defrag!
You need to prune the space BIG TIME.

Run Disk Cleanup, delete all old Internet History Files, delete all TMP of
temporary files, delete all but the most recent system restore point, delete
or remove any unwanted programme files.

The largest component in any PC should be XP itself - 400Mb.

A full length DVD is only 6Gb with all the special features.

Look for any files on your PC >500Mb and decide if you really need to keep
them or if they are better copied onto CD or DVD.

After you've cut down the space, run a disk defrag: go to sleep and see if
it has finished by the morning. It's a safe bet you have done this in months
and it will take hours to finish. Remember that you need to get 400-500Mb of
free space for defrag to run on your hard drive.

 

[Ken]

Problem solved. I deleted those huge hp*.tmp files.
Apparently large residue from my HP 600 printer driver. One
question. When I ran DiskCleanup none of the *.tmp files in
the \windows\temp directory were listed. Is that a bug or a
feature?

Ken