The date and time was 5/27/2008 7:56 PM, and on a whim, VanguardLH
pounded out on the keyboard:
No, you didn't find a temp file that was 23GB in size. Your TEMP
*folder* had files in it that consumed 23GB. So what files were in your
temp folder that was consuming all this space? You have a program that
is polluting your hard drive because it doesn't delete its temp files,
or your host is continually crashing so the application cannot delete
its files when it gets killed by the crash.
You can also use the disk cleanup wizard to occasionally cleanup your
hard disk, including temp files. Read Microsoft's KB article 315246 on
how to save the registry settings (sageset) that you can then specify
when you run a scheduled event in Task Scheduler to run the disk cleanup
wizard (cleanmgr.exe). Otherwise, just run the wizard once in awhile
yourself to cleanup the temp files scattered all over your hard disk.
Have you seen what the OP has seen? How can you state, "No, you didn't
find a temp file that was 23GB in size"? Unless he clarifies his
statement (which he didn't to me), we have to believe that is what his
issue is, regardless if it doesn't make sense. Since he knew enough to
say it wasn't "temp internet files", we also have to believe it wasn't
multiple files.
I have NEVER seen a workstation that didn't have a cleanup script (that
I always create), have less than hundreds of megs of files, if not gigs
sitting in the temp folders. Windows and the programs installed are
notorious for leaving this junk in a users temp folder.
--
Terry R.
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