Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

the files in c:\documents and settings\myusername\local settings\temp?

There's 3Gb worth of files in there and I could do with the space!

*Sonic*

usually you can

i go through mine every so often, and have a clearout
but it never gets to 3 Gb !!

BlkKnight

yep.

If you sport by date - and don't delete the ones with todays date.

Also the contents of:

c:\%windows%\prefetch

Will speed up your boot time

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

%systemroot%/Prefetch

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Cheers guys. I couldn't work out why my C:\ drive was continuously getting smaller even though I install programs on my D:\ drive and have a seperate drive to store films and music on.

Granby

iTrader: (5)

I have quite a few folders in this temp folder can these be deleted aswell

mart360

is that file path correct, are the folders identified with % ?

could do with a dig round there later


Mart

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

%systemroot% is an environment variable. In Windows XP it would usually equate to C:\WINDOWS.

If you paste %systemroot%/Prefetch into the Start, Run box it should resolve the path for you.

I think the point was that the environment variable was incorrect. %WinDir% would have been another option.

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Right well I've deleted everything that was older than todays date from that temp directory (including the folders).
Everything's working fine still

I've looked at that prefetch directory, there's 3.41mb worth of stuff in there but it's all got todays date on it?

ru'

What about all the windows update files in the WIndows directory, with folder names such as $NtUninstallKB900725$?

I'm assuming I can zap these as long as I don't plan to uninstal the updates??