Windows / Temp Files

Hello Noel
That I didn't realise and I cant say I have heard that possibility mentioned
before in all the temp
posts in the past.
I have only used McAfee or Netguard - perhaps they are doing what you say.
Keeping this folder clear is just another 'household chore'
Rgds
Antioch

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Many anti-virus products create random-named executables in the TEMP
folder which cannot be cleaned with Windows running - the idea being that
a potential virus then doesn't know the name of the running process that
it has to kill to survive. Some anti-spyware products do the same, IIRC
(RootkitRevealer for one) These files are deleted during a graceful
shutdown

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"antioch" wrote in message
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Hello Noel
I take your points only on the assumption that I have understood what you
mean.
I have had two computers in the last 12 months, both with Winxp Home SP2
and both have had temp folders that add files etc every time the computer
is switched on.
I can confirm that despite doing a cleanup, this particular temp does not
get cleaned.
Most often when a cleanup is performed, there is nothing in the 'temp' as
shown.
Yet there is plenty in that other one unless I have done a manual
cleanout.
I have never had any Symantec/Norton product on either computer.
I am not alone with this phenomenon.
Rgds
Antioch

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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In 99% of cases the problem lies not with the OS, but with a misbehaving
program - - and most of the rest is due to a user killing a program
improperly, so not allowing it to clean up after itself.
One case in point is a program installation - which may create a few
hundred files in the TEMP folder - if the install fails (or the user
kills it improperly), then the files may be left in the folder. Since
Win ME, all OS's have an option to run a cleanup as part of scheduled
maintenance, and I generally recommend that 'novice' users use that
facility. The more experienced user will generally have found their own
favoured way of cleaning the system

Very rarely, a program will have a bug - or two programs will conflict -
in such a way as to quickly generate thousands of files, in one of three
locations.... the Windows\INF folder, the TEMP folder, or the System
Restore archive.... strangely enough the predominant causes for all
three amount either to user error, or incompetence on the part of
Symantec programmers.


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"antioch" wrote in message
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Hello Noel
Having never had the privilege of using Me, I had a feeling my comments
would be of no use, as I am sure it would have been suggested already.
I wonder if 'Vista' will have the same built-in temp that will grow and
grow, regenerate etc without most users knowing until they have no more
disk space.
Rgds
Antioch

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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In WinXP, there are a number of TEMP folders which need to be
addressed (carefully!) - there's one for each user account created,
one for the Administrator account, and a 'reserve' one at
c:\Windows\TEMP for the older program which doesn't understand WinNT
structures. IIRC, the same applies to Win2K - and to Win2K3 server
In WinME you still have the option to boot to a mode in which a DOS
system can see the whole disk - which is not necessarily the case in
any Win NT-based system, as most boot floppies and not capable of
reading from or writing to a NTFS file system. - that said, the limits
that apply in FAT32 do not apply in NTFS, so it's unlikely that the
system would seize in the same way - unless the user for some reason
had installed the OS into a FAT32 environment.

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"antioch" wrote in message
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Hello Noel
This sounds similar to WinXP, but I do not know if the below applies
to ME.
There appears to be 2 temps - one gets deleted when you disk cleanup
but the other never does, and manual appears the only way to keep the
numbers down.
I had a similar thing with 2000. With that OS, if I tried to delete
a few at a time, they just regenerated as copy1, cop2 etc. At one
point I got to copy 10, and finished up with more than I had started.
Yes, it ran into the thousands of files and dozens of folders.
With XP I do this;
Start - Run - type %temp% - Select edit then 'select all'. Then go
to File - Delete.
Delete will start but will stop when a file is still in use. So
click on delete again until you are left with a dozen or so, then
select all but the latest time/dated ones, and delete them. You
should be left with 2, 3 or 4 files, all dated and timed the same.
I do this about once every two weeks.
Hope this is of help - with acknowledgement to Wesley Vogel MVP.
Rgds
Antioch

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Boot to DOS using a Startup floppy and type the following commands
at the A:\ prompt


REN c:\windows\temp c:\windows\old

MD C:\windows\Temp

reboot to Windows, and then delete the C;\Windows\old folder

then check frequently the content of the new Temp folder - when you
see one or two new HPxxxx.xx files there, open one in Notepad, and
see what the contents are
post back, and let us know aht's there, and we may be able to
isolate the cause, and find a cure

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"Keith Young" wrote in message
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Not sure what is going on but I am trying to clear my windows.temp
directory. The are more than 36,000 files in there all with
basically the same name (slightly differet). The names start with
HP and then have slight variations in the remainder of the name.

My WINME computer locks up when I try and select all of the files
to delete. I tried to clear through the Disk Cleanup utility but
apparently that doesnt cleat the Windows.Temp directory. I have
been having some strange problems with the computer and clearing
this temp directory in the past has helped.

Can this have anything to do with my HP932 printer?

How can I get rid of these files.

Thanks for your help.

Keith

Thanks to everyone for your help. I will try the suggestions and report
back.

Keith
"Keith Young" wrote in message
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Not sure what is going on but I am trying to clear my windows.temp
directory. The are more than 36,000 files in there all with basically the
same name (slightly differet). The names start with HP and then have
slight variations in the remainder of the name.

My WINME computer locks up when I try and select all of the files to
delete. I tried to clear through the Disk Cleanup utility but apparently
that doesnt cleat the Windows.Temp directory. I have been having some
strange problems with the computer and clearing this temp directory in the
past has helped.

Can this have anything to do with my HP932 printer?

How can I get rid of these files.

Thanks for your help.

Keith

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Sounds like a big piece of crap!


Shane


wrote in message
oups.com...
I will suggest HS WinPerfect which can clean hard disk and system
registry, optimizes memory, adjusts system specific settings,
accelerates internet connection, improves cpu usage, maintains
security, detects spyware/adware and un-install software no longer
wanted. The core of the software is based on CleanDisk Pro
http://haysoft.com/main/content/view/3020/32/lang,en/

Sorry. Meant a *big* piece of crap!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
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Sounds like a big piece of crap!


Shane


wrote in message
oups.com...
I will suggest HS WinPerfect which can clean hard disk and system
registry, optimizes memory, adjusts system specific settings,
accelerates internet connection, improves cpu usage, maintains
security, detects spyware/adware and un-install software no longer
wanted. The core of the software is based on CleanDisk Pro
http://haysoft.com/main/content/view/3020/32/lang,en/

Shane wrote:

Sorry. Meant a *big* piece of crap!

ROFL
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Is it expensive, too???
vbeg

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"Shane" wrote in message
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Sorry. Meant a *big* piece of crap!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
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Sounds like a big piece of crap!


Shane


wrote in message
oups.com...
I will suggest HS WinPerfect which can clean hard disk and system
registry, optimizes memory, adjusts system specific settings,
accelerates internet connection, improves cpu usage, maintains
security, detects spyware/adware and un-install software no longer
wanted. The core of the software is based on CleanDisk Pro
http://haysoft.com/main/content/view/3020/32/lang,en/

"Mike M" wrote in message
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Shane wrote:

Sorry. Meant a *big* piece of crap!

ROFL

:-)

Where'd we be without that kind of stuff though, eh Mike? Thank Heavens for
little minds, as Maurice Chevalier might have said!

Shane

What's that then, Noel? A grin with a duck bill?

You're right though. It sounds like a big, *expensive* piece of crap!



Shane



"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Is it expensive, too???
vbeg

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"Shane" wrote in message
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Sorry. Meant a *big* piece of crap!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
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Sounds like a big piece of crap!


Shane


wrote in message
oups.com...
I will suggest HS WinPerfect which can clean hard disk and system
registry, optimizes memory, adjusts system specific settings,
accelerates internet connection, improves cpu usage, maintains
security, detects spyware/adware and un-install software no longer
wanted. The core of the software is based on CleanDisk Pro
http://haysoft.com/main/content/view/3020/32/lang,en/

Shane wrote:

Where'd we be without that kind of stuff though, eh Mike? Thank
Heavens for little minds, as Maurice Chevalier might have said!

Indeed. You're in good form today Shane!
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