will anything go wrong if i delete everything inside of my temp file

[dustinbob]

i know that i can delete everything in my "Temporary Internet Files" folder but just last week i noticed another one becide it that was called "temp" and it was 6 gigs!!! so i was wondering if there was anything important in there cause when i was looking through it all i could see was game patches and folders with long names.

I would keep everything in there that's today's date, it's probably in use. Everything else is probably just junk.

[Telexen]

Try running the Disk Cleanup...it will know what's safe to delete

If that doesn't get rid of enough though then you should hunt for large files and delete them...

[dustinbob]

never woulda thought about running Disk Cleanup good call

thanks for the advice

[CraigK]

simple question. are you manually deleting these files, or are you doing disk cleanup in My computer?

[dustinbob]

i just want to get rid of the stuff in the "temp" file, how i do i doesnt really matter.

i was just wondering if there was like windows stuff in there or some other important computer files in there that i would mess up

[highrock]

well it's a temp directory. ALOT of stuff goes here during unzips and installs. I delete stuff in there all the time. "BUT" i make sure they are bogus files before I delete them. If they are folders in there and nothing inside them delete them. Anyfile that has. .tmp delete. useless for me anyways. anything will .dll becareful I don't advise keeping it unless the program using is uninstalled.

[dustinbob]

alright, sounds good

thanks for the advice

[highrock]

I don't advise DELETING the .dll files unless the program using is uninstalled already.

just caught that. sorry this is what i meant to say.

[dustinbob]

alright that sounds alot better