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| From | Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files |
| Date | 2025-02-27 19:00 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vpqcp3$37oo3$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <vpo23a.nco.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <vpo09o$2nu88$1@dont-email.me> <vpodov$2q8gt$1@dont-email.me> <vpphj5$331mt$1@dont-email.me> <vppm27$34266$1@dont-email.me> |
Newyana2 wrote: > On 2/27/2025 6:15 AM, Ed Cryer wrote: > >> I regularly empty my Temp file in users/ Appdata/ Local. I just go >> there, select all, and delete. One file won't delete; FXSAP| >> DebugLogFile, associated with Windows Fax. >> I don't use Chrome, but Edge puts lots of rubbish in there, and even >> after a couple of days from empty it will build to 100MB. Why can't >> computer programmers clean up their mess? They're as bad as builders. >> I once complained to a builder about that, and he said "Oh, you mean >> the bits?" >> (:- Bits to him; a clean-up job for me! >> > > He probably has a wife who picks up after him. >> You mention a script. Others have mentioned other scripts. I'd be >> interested in the best available. >> To all; If you think you have the best, post here and I'll try them. >> > > I wrote a script on XP because deleting by hand would often > get stopped when one file wouldn't delete. So it was easier to > write a VBScript that would keep going when it hit a file it > couldn't delete. There were also 3 TEMP folders. C:\, > C:\Windows and the appdata TEMP. On Win10 there's still > C:\Windows\TEMP. My Intel graphics is using it now. > > My script is nothing special. It just goes through deleting > what it can, gives me a report, then shows a message to run > Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase > in order to clean anything unnecessary out of winsxs. > > That one folder is always the only one that is system-locked and undeletable. But it provides little hold-up, since WinExplorer tells me it can't delete it, gives me highlight, and when I hit ok it's the only one left; job finished. I never get much debris in the other two folders. The C:\Windows Temp gets some, but something other than me deletes it occasionally. Ed
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