Message Edited by tomron on 09-16-2007 04:13 PM

Hi, As Tom already indicated, .TMP files are temporary files and they can safely be deleted. If you would like to clear out even more (including internet debris), try the simple easy to use freeware application, Disk Cleaner at... http://www.diskcleaner.nl/news.php. Jim McNamara

wbk___.tmp are probably Outlook Express files. You should be able to open and read them with Notepad. And they can be safely deleted.

Ron

Hi,

Two different types of temporary file are being discussed here ... temporary files with the file extension .TMP and Temporary Internet Files (TIF). Temporary files with the extension .TMP are created by various different software applications and are safe to delete. Deleting IE temporary internet files is a rather complicated task because of the way these particular files are stored. To learn about this ... enter INDEX.DAT as your search argument in your search engine of choice and you'll see what I mean. For those of you that still have DOS based Win98 system, I have a batch file that I wrote a long time back and used for many years to delete IE internet debris and more, including some registry entries. It must be executed in native mode, meaning not from a DOS window within Windows. It can be invoked or embedded (added to) the autoexec.bat file to automatically delete temporary internet file and more. Some words of caution though. The Windows Temp folder/directory is often used to complete software installation at bootup and deleting its contents and undermine the successful completion of an install. In addition, there is such a thing as good cookies (for instance on-line banking registration information) that will be deleted requiring the deleted cookies to be reinstated. Such cookies should be identified, and backed up so they can be restored. The batch file could be expanded upon to backup and even restore backed up cookies. Feel free to delete any line that deletes something that you wish not to be deleted.

@ECHO OFF
REM -------------------- Win9x / IE4-6 ---------------------
REM The following will be purged: Internet Explorer Cookies,
REM Temporary Internet Files (Cache), History, Typed URLs,
REM Downloaded Programs, Offline Web Pages, and Windows Temp
REM (remove REM), Recent (Documents), Recycle Bin folders
REM and various Most Recently Used lists in the registry
REM --------------------------------------------------------
CLS
IF EXIST C:\TEMPOR~1 DELTREE /Y C:\TEMPOR~1 > NUL
IF EXIST C:\COOKIES DELTREE /Y C:\COOKIES > NUL
IF EXIST C:\HISTORY DELTREE /Y C:\HISTORY > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\TEMPOR~1 DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMPOR~1 > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\TEMPOR~1 DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\TEMPOR~1 > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\COOKIES DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\COOKIES > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\HISTORY DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\HISTORY > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\TEMPOR~1 DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\TEMPOR~1 > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\COOKIES DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\COOKIES > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\HISTORY DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\HISTORY > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\LOCALS~1\TEMPOR~1 DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\LOCALS~1\TEMPOR~1 > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\LOCALS~1\COOKIES DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\LOCALS~1\COOKIES > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\LOCALS~1\HISTORY DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\LOCALS~1\HISTORY > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLO~1\. DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLO~1\. > NUL
IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\OFFLIN~1\. DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\OFFLIN~1\. > NUL
REM DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\. > NUL
DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\RECENT\. > NUL
DELTREE /Y C:\RECYCLED\. > NUL
ECHO REGEDIT4 > C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedTypedURLs] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedTypedURLs] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad\Recent File List] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RecentDocs] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Doc Find Spec MRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamMRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\OCXStreamMRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentURLList] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentFileList] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\LastVisitedMRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO. >> C:\RegClear.reg
ECHO [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\InstallLocationsMRU] >> C:\RegClear.reg
REGEDIT /S C:\RegClear.reg
DEL C:\RegClear.reg