Temporary internet files ???

[Computer]

Should your temp folder be emptied out. And is there a difference between your TEMP folders and your /localsettings/temporary internet files ? Which is the one that people always says causes trouble? My temporar internet files is a huge file. should I just delete the contents and start fresh or does it keep building up do anything harmful?

thanks

i would clear them out, those temp files can cause some issues and slow downs

Thats why a lot of support places tell you to clear the temp files when your having problems accessing some web pages



temp folders like in your windows directory are used for programs that are running in windows. or if you installed some software. they store info there and then delete it when its done using it

[Creatures]

clear them, i had more than 1.5 GB temp files (i donnu why windows didnt delete them) so do it manually!

Creatures

[Jonty]

I'm a bit paranoid with these files and what I do is delete them each day. I'm using Windows 98 so I've put a couple of lines into the autoexec.bat file like so:

deltree c:\windows\tempor~1 /y
deltree c:\windows\history /y

This will delete the TIF and also clear the history too, the folders will be rebuilt during the startup. This also has the advantage of deleting the index.dat file which cannot be deleted within Windows or even an MSDOS window within Windows.

Every now and then I delete the files and folders in the Windows/temp folder as they can accumulate.

[Optimus Prime]

Clean it! I gained 2 Gig!

You can access it by either:

1. Using Disk Cleaner
2. Using the command %Temp%
3. Going into C:\Documents and Settings\Your name\Temp\Temporary Internet Files.

[Bovon]

Not sure this is the same as what has been mentioned so far, but a sub folder of Temporary Internet Files is Content.IE5 (on my machine, with Win98) Sub folders of Content.IE5 will collect everything Windows caches while surfing and other things. I have to delete these folders about once a week.

If Win2K has about the same, I have not seen it yet.. I have just setup a dual boot with Win98se and Win2K..and am not yet familiar with where these temp files are stored.

(Just found it in Win2K...nothing cached yet.)

[snelson66]

You can also use MS TweakUI to automatically remove files like that as well. Not supported software, but it works fine for me.

[Optimus Prime]

Yeah, sorry, point no 3. is for Windows XP.

[bdj]

As I understand it, the "Temp" directory is use by Windows and other applications to store temporary data needed by either the O.S. or the app. When finished the O.S. and or the App, if the programmers that wrote the app were of any value, should delete the temp data.

The temporary I.E. files folder is a cache for web pages that you have visited. I don't know why Microsoft sets the default so high, but I have seen 2gb set for storage. This and other setting can be changed to decreace the size of the storage area, and supposedly delete the I.E. temp file when you close the browser.

If these are temp files I see no need to keep them longer than necessary.

bdj

[Gait_Keeper]

so in win98se when you run "disk cleanup" it don't get everything??

I need to delete the folders?

after running disk cleanup an going back in I still see a lot of stuff.