Getting rid of .tmp files

I just noticed that I have over 10,000 .tmp files in the
C:/ part alone. Any way get rid of them short of hitting delete
10,000 times. Also, anyway to get WP98 to clean this up on own.
Would going to the DOS prompt and doing something like delete
*.tmp work?

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SBH

Sure there's an easy way. Go to startsearch or findfiles, enter *.tmp;
this will find all the .tmp files all over the machine. click on the top
one, pull the scroll bar down to the last one, hold shift and click the last
one, right click, select delete. This shift and click will work just about
everywhere to select everything between the first click and the shift and
click. alternatively, you can ctrl+click to select non-contiguous items.

"Kurt Ullman" wrote:

I just noticed that I have over 10,000 .tmp files in the
C:/ part alone. Any way get rid of them short of hitting delete
10,000 times. Also, anyway to get WP98 to clean this up on own.
Would going to the DOS prompt and doing something like delete
*.tmp work?

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wants to do. Cleaning toilets. Being governor.


SBH

In article ,
"=?Utf-8?B?TmFuY3kgSm9uZXM=?="
wrote:
Sure there's an easy way. Go to startsearch or findfiles, enter *.tmp;
this will find all the .tmp files all over the machine. click on the top
one, pull the scroll bar down to the last one, hold shift and click the last
one, right click, select delete. This shift and click will work just about
everywhere to select everything between the first click and the shift and
click. alternatively, you can ctrl+click to select non-contiguous items.

Thanks. Now all I have to do is figure why I have all these .tmp
files and the laptop has none (g).

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SBH

Start -- Run... command

Type:
set
followed by Enter key.

What the lines:
TEMP=......
and
TMP=.....

say?

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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:20:04 GMT, (Kurt Ullman)
wrote:

In article ,
"=?Utf-8?B?TmFuY3kgSm9uZXM=?="
wrote:
Sure there's an easy way. Go to startsearch or findfiles, enter *.tmp;
this will find all the .tmp files all over the machine. click on the top
one, pull the scroll bar down to the last one, hold shift and click the last
one, right click, select delete. This shift and click will work just about
everywhere to select everything between the first click and the shift and
click. alternatively, you can ctrl+click to select non-contiguous items.

Thanks. Now all I have to do is figure why I have all these .tmp
files and the laptop has none (g).

In article , Mikhail
Zhilin wrote:
Start -- Run... command

Type:
set
followed by Enter key.

What the lines:
TEMP=......
and
TMP=.....

say?

TEMP=C:\ (capital C)
TMP=c:\ (small c)
Also they seem to fall into these categories. Most of them are
ACR* (some combination of numbers and letters) they are almost all
in the C:\]
~WRL* (which are word files)
AIM* (urlcache)
VDB* (windows internet logs)
. tmp Folders which are symantec virus definitions (I am going
to leave these alone)

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SBH

Kurt,

Yes, on one hand it is the culprit, but on the other hand -- most likely
it's a victim of the wrong Autoexec.bat.

It seems as you copied Autoexec.bat from the Startup Disk (diskette) as
the working one. But Autoexec.bat at the startup disk is very specific
one, and can't be used for the usual work. And I suppose that Config.sys
is wrong, too.

In general, Windows does not need these two files at all -- but only in
a few cases (say, if you have to use German codepage in DOS).

Run (Start -- Run...) Sysedit, copy the content of these two files, one
by one, and paste in your reply here.

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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:31:10 GMT, (Kurt Ullman)
wrote:

In article , Mikhail
Zhilin wrote:
Start -- Run... command

Type:
set
followed by Enter key.

What the lines:
TEMP=......
and
TMP=.....

say?

TEMP=C:\ (capital C)
TMP=c:\ (small c)
Also they seem to fall into these categories. Most of them are
ACR* (some combination of numbers and letters) they are almost all
in the C:\]
~WRL* (which are word files)
AIM* (urlcache)
VDB* (windows internet logs)
. tmp Folders which are symantec virus definitions (I am going
to leave these alone)

In ,
Mikhail Zhilin had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Kurt,

Yes, on one hand it is the culprit, but on the other hand -- most
likely it's a victim of the wrong Autoexec.bat.

It seems as you copied Autoexec.bat from the Startup Disk (diskette)
as the working one. But Autoexec.bat at the startup disk is very
specific one, and can't be used for the usual work. And I suppose
that Config.sys is wrong, too.

In general, Windows does not need these two files at all -- but only
in a few cases (say, if you have to use German codepage in DOS).

Run (Start -- Run...) Sysedit, copy the content of these two files,
one by one, and paste in your reply here.

I read. I listened. Kurt, go to www.webattack.com and in the category of
Disk Cleaning in Freeware find what suits your needs to clean your disk.
Here's a direct URL if you would like:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/sy...diskclean.html

I haven't ever downloaded a spyware or trojaned application from the above
site. If the application has ads the site will clearly tell you. This is not
posted to be in exchange of the information given by the other people but
rather to add to what they've said. I personally own a copy of System
Mechanic that I use solely for the reason of killing temp/unneeded files. I
don't recommend it often and don't in this case as there's some chance that
it can, if used improperly, harm your system and the newer versions are just
plain garbage in my opinion.

Galen
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Galen,

Until TEMP and TMP variables are wrong -- all the cleaning measures are
useless because these temporary files and folders will appear again and
again.

But after these variables will be correct (I don't say about the other
possible problems because of the wrong config.sys and autoexec.bat, like
HDD compatible mode) -- the other advices: WHAT ad HOW to clean up in
system, will be useful, of course.

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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 02:45:01 -0400, "Galen" wrote:

In ,
Mikhail Zhilin had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Kurt,

Yes, on one hand it is the culprit, but on the other hand -- most
likely it's a victim of the wrong Autoexec.bat.

It seems as you copied Autoexec.bat from the Startup Disk (diskette)
as the working one. But Autoexec.bat at the startup disk is very
specific one, and can't be used for the usual work. And I suppose
that Config.sys is wrong, too.

In general, Windows does not need these two files at all -- but only
in a few cases (say, if you have to use German codepage in DOS).

Run (Start -- Run...) Sysedit, copy the content of these two files,
one by one, and paste in your reply here.

I read. I listened. Kurt, go to www.webattack.com and in the category of
Disk Cleaning in Freeware find what suits your needs to clean your disk.
Here's a direct URL if you would like:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/sy...diskclean.html

I haven't ever downloaded a spyware or trojaned application from the above
site. If the application has ads the site will clearly tell you. This is not
posted to be in exchange of the information given by the other people but
rather to add to what they've said. I personally own a copy of System
Mechanic that I use solely for the reason of killing temp/unneeded files. I
don't recommend it often and don't in this case as there's some chance that
it can, if used improperly, harm your system and the newer versions are just
plain garbage in my opinion.

Galen

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:09:00 +0400, Mikhail Zhilin
wrote:

Galen,

Until TEMP and TMP variables are wrong -- all the cleaning measures are
useless because these
...

I mean:

Temporary files and folders will appear again and again in the root of
C: instead of the special temporary folder -- from where they can be
deleted from time to time with no problems and no necessity in thinking,
what these files/subfolders are.

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In ,
Mikhail Zhilin had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I mean:

Temporary files and folders will appear again and again in the root of
C: instead of the special temporary folder -- from where they can be
deleted from time to time with no problems and no necessity in
thinking, what these files/subfolders are.

Great point in that a) the applications MAY still function but b) the
problem may still exist. C: (or the root drive) shouldn't house the %temp%
files and what ever system paths have been changed should be changed back. I
agree entirely and stand beside you on that one. This begs to be asked: What
could have changed the directory? The OP playing with a system tweaking
tool? Malware? Then, further, could the applications that I gave even FIND
the temp files if there weren't in the root? Do the applications follow the
path to the %temp% or do they crawl up from the %SystemRoot% or worse still
%WinDir%????????? Chagrined for not thinking along those lines? Yes. But
still inquisitive.

Galen
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