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Windows\Temp Folder keeps filling up

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by shawnl

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On a few users the Windows\Temp folder periodically contains over 10,000 items. I delete the items and a few days later they reapear. Most of the files start with tmp and end with .htm. I am still trying to figure out the time they are being created.

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by syscokid

In Windows Explorer, if you click on View, Details, you will see the date and time the files are created.

You can create an autoexec.bat file using a text editor (Notepad), or modify your existing autoexec.bat file, to include the line

del C:\Windows\Temp\*.*

This will delete everythng in that folder whenever the computer is booted.

by shawnl

I could do this to autoexec.bat, but I would rather discover the cause and change the setting to create these temp files. Also some of the dates on the files are listed as being created in 1999. The folder was cleared in 2002.

by shawnl

What's causing all of these files to be created? Is it some setting on Internet Explorer?

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