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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? -- Here in California, US immigrants do the really dirty jobs nobody else wants to do. Cleaning toilets. Being governor. SBH |
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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? -- Here in California, US immigrants do the really dirty jobs nobody else wants to do. Cleaning toilets. Being governor. SBH |
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"=?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). -- Here in California, US immigrants do the really dirty jobs nobody else wants to do. Cleaning toilets. Being governor. SBH |
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Start -- Run... command
Type: set followed by Enter key. What the lines: TEMP=...... and TMP=..... say? -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== 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). |
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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) -- Here in California, US immigrants do the really dirty jobs nobody else wants to do. Cleaning toilets. Being governor. SBH |
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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. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== 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) |
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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 -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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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. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== 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 |
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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. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== |
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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 -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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