Temp files-What to do??

I delete everything in C:\Windows\Temp and experienced no problems. This included all of the numbered ISTMP_.DIR folders. As I understand it, this Temp directory is a trash bin. Nothing in there that cannot be deleted. And so far that has proven to be the case.

I stopped using Disk Cleanup because it is not very agressive in cleaning the Temp directory. It will only remove the .tmp files after seven days and none of the other files or folders. I always seems to have one pesky folder that re-appears from time to time in the Temp folder, so I just leave it. If I delete it, it just comes back later with a new date. It's ...\msoclip1\01. I manually cleanup the Temp directory every few days. Hope this helps.

Eleanor
Windows 98SE, I.E. 5.5 (SP1), Norton 2000 6.10.23, ZoneAlarm 2.6.357
Dimension XPS T600r
128MB Ram
HP DeskJet 895Cse

Thank you for the help. "Not aggressive enough" is how disk cleanup seems to be taking care of this. I'll clean it out feeling more confident that you deleted the same type of files.

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