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Title: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
Post by: Scherf on June 06, 2014, 03:17:49 AM

Something's eating the disk space on my XP machine. (Yeah, it's old, but it works.) I suspect a lot of is the assorted temporary files for internet downloads, bloody google earth, etc.

Can I delete the temp files without causing some kind of bloody disaster?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
Post by: Cthulhu on June 06, 2014, 06:45:28 AM

You may have some .zip files that were uncompressed there as part of a download that you may want to keep, but other than that,  yeah empty c:\temp if you want.

Go find an app called CCleaner from Piriform.com. It'll take care of this stuff for you.

**Oh yeah, go find your \Application Data folder too (in c:\Documents and Settings). There may be crash dumps in there, and they can be huge.

Title: Re: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
Post by: Scherf on June 06, 2014, 06:52:35 AM

Cheers, thanks.

Title: Re: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
Post by: Cthulhu on June 06, 2014, 06:56:32 AM

Quote from: Scherf on June 06, 2014, 06:52:35 AM

Cheers, thanks.

No worries.  :)