Temp files, can I delete them all?

[Greg]

Hi All,

Any problem deleting all .TMP offf my windows XP setup? What are the risks?
How come Disk Cleanup doesn't get them all?

Thanks,

Greg

 

[Rich Barry]

All tmp files can be deleted. If they are from a old program that you no
longer use you may have to go to C:\Program Files
and delete the program folder. That's after you have remove the program
using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel.

 

[Guest]

I have a batch file that does a searching delete of all temp files. The
reason this is safe is that, if a TMP file is active, you're not allowed to
delete it. i.e., the file is locked. So the attempt just produces an error on
that instance and continues on to the next.

Here's the batch script:
del %systemdrive%\*.tmp /s
del %systemdrive%\~*.* /s

There are ocassional knuckleheads who write programs that use tmp's that
aren't locked, and this might cause that one program to slow down as it
rebuilds the tmp dynamically.

Unless anyone else knows of some other pitfall, all I can say is I've been
running this batch program on my 80 machines for years with no problems.

JeffO

 

[Greg]

Hey JeffO,

I have no idea how to run a batch file, can you tell me how?

Thanks,

Greg