How to delete files in C;\windows emp file

Question

I have observed that the windows	emp folder has aquired over 120,000 files with a colume of 12.7GB and has been increasing at the rate of about 1GB per day.  If I work back, it seems to have started with the detection and removal by Norton Antivirus of the 'bloodhound eploit 106' virus.   I have looked for .tmp, .chk and ~.*.* but have only found relatively few.  I have not tried to open the temp file because of its size, but from the Norton scan it seems that many of the files seem to be similar to c:\Windows\Temp\ {E680725d-IE09-430A-9622-B2F394984B23}...   Can anybody help before my hard drive overflows?  This is URGENT   Best regards   Martin Paesler mrap@msn.com

boppo · Answer

open the folder, click edit, click select all and right click delete

HiGhLaNdEr48 · Answer

emrap wrote:

I have looked for .tmp, .chk and ~.*.* but have only found relatively few.

I am confused by this line.How are you observing these files? Go to Start>run,then type %temp% to open the temp folder then follow boppo instructions, you may have to do it several times as sometimes they are stubburn.Also the fact that this folder is growing by 1 gig a day suggests to me that something is amiss on your computer.

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How to delete files in C;\windows\temp file

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