New unknown files appearing

[Guest]

I have been trying to delete files and programs I am not using because of
space problems. However, when I tried to defrag, there was a huge file (886
MB) listed in C:\Windows\temp called 00000001. No extension. I couldn't
open it, nor zip it, nor find out where it came from. Just to see if it was
important to anything, I moved it to another directory. All programs seemed
to work, BUT I looked again in that temp folder--and there was another one
called 00000000 with over 460 MB . Tonight there is another one ~$000000 at
1 KB. What is going on? It is eating up all my disk space. Can I just
delete them? Where are they coming from? I don't play any games (which is
what they seemed to relate to on google).

HELP!

Mightmite

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Mightmite,

One of these tools may help you determine the name of the application
generating those temporary files..

How To Audit User Access of Files, Folders, and Printers in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310399

Sysinternals Freeware - Filemon:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com