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Offline Scherf

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Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
« 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.
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Re: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2014, 06:52:35 AM »
Cheers, thanks.
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Re: Can I delete "temp" files off my hard drive without screwing things up?
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