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Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files

From Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files
Date 2025-02-27 22:54 +0000
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Newyana2 wrote:
> On 2/27/2025 2:00 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
>     I just had an interesting experience. My system somehow grew to
> 22.6 GB -- about 2 GB too big. I looked around and found that the
> TEMP folder in winsxs is not emptied by any means. I thought
> my DISM line cleaned it, but it turns out what that does is to delete
> unneeded old versions of updates and components. In some cases
> it can clean up a great deal, especially if you allow Windows Update.
> 
>    But nothing cleans TEMP. I looked online. How to delete
> winsxs\temp\InFlight, which had grown to nearly 4 GB, and all the
> files seemed to be dated 2/10. What did I do on 2/10? Beats me.
> Is it safe to delete those files? I couldn't find any definitive answer.
> 
>    Finally I made a current disk image, rebooted, used my handy
> utility to remove restrictions from all 12K files(!), and deleted InFlight.
> No problems that I can see. Apparently there are some things that
> get stuck there. What really strikes me is that so much documentation
> is missing for Win10. It's 10 years old. I used to know prety much
> everything on 98 and XP. On 10 I find endless folders with mysterious
> names, containing files that are equally mysterious. And no one seems
> to know what they are. So much crap.
> 

My Win10 box of tricks is over 10 years old, but I stick with it. It has 
a 500GB SSD, 8GB RAM, CPU as old as Noah, and it still functions quickly 
enough and well enough for my moderate computing needs.
The SSD is littered with files of every description; many empty folders, 
lots of uninstall left-overs, and God knows what else. Just simply 
listing through the file types installed is sufficient proof of all the 
litter. Most of the ones listed ring no bell at all.

I don't know why I even bother emptying Appdata\ Temp occasionally. That 
holds just a fraction of all the gumph and gagga to be found.
The thing is, though, that the SSD is less than half full.
It's mere habit with the TEMP folder.
I hope I don't get some itch to tidy up properly. I'd probably be able 
to clear out several hundred GBs. But, while doing that, I might disturb 
something that might cost me hours of time to restore.
So then, quod non fractum est, noli tangere.

Ed

Ed

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