OK to delete contents of C:\WINNT\Temp\ folder?

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Scott A. Keen

I have 1,900+ objects taking up 467 MB of space in my C:\WINNT\Temp\ folder.

Is it OK to delete everything in there, including folders? There's mostly
..TMP files, but also some others like ._mp, .dll, .txt, .exe, etc...

Many files are prefixed, "LBnnn.TMP" or "JETnnn.TMP" or "OLnnn.TMP". What is
creating these temp files, and why aren't they automatically deleted when
it's done?
 
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Dave Patrick

With no applications and or installs running and after restart, you can
delete the files from the %temp% directory.

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|I have 1,900+ objects taking up 467 MB of space in my C:\WINNT\Temp\
folder.
|
| Is it OK to delete everything in there, including folders? There's mostly
| .TMP files, but also some others like ._mp, .dll, .txt, .exe, etc...
|
| Many files are prefixed, "LBnnn.TMP" or "JETnnn.TMP" or "OLnnn.TMP". What
is
| creating these temp files, and why aren't they automatically deleted when
| it's done?
|
|
 

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