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lodore
March 14th, 2008, 05:30 PM
Hello,
i wondered how on vista i was suddenly using 20gb with hardly any programs installed.
so i showed hidden files and folders. gained access to C:\windows\temp folder.
the temp folder was 9.6GB.
so i emptyed it.
i mean they are only temporary files anyway.
i restored the files to check something.
if i run diskcleanup it only reports 920mb of temporary files.
due to recyle bin size i could only restore 3.6gb from the bin.
once the diskcleanup had run i checked the folder and it stil has 3.6gb of stuff in there.
i manually emptyed it.
can anyone else with vista show hidden file and folders grant yourself access to the c:\windows\temp folder right click it and see how muhc space its takin up?
Cloudcroft
March 14th, 2008, 06:55 PM
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can anyone else with vista show hidden file and folders grant yourself access to the c:\windows\temp folder right click it and see how muhc space its takin up?" }-
Mine is showing 1 file with 0 bytes.
AKAJohnDoe
March 14th, 2008, 07:03 PM
You might look at CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/).
lodore
March 14th, 2008, 07:59 PM
-{ Quote: "You might look at CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/)." }-
i tryed that but it deleted some drivers as well....
i know they are unneeded drivers since it deleted amd drivers since im using a intel based pc but it still annoyed me.
midway40
March 14th, 2008, 09:52 PM
These are my temp sizes:

Desktop---9.62 MB
Laptop----0 MB

I didn't know or ever notice that CCLeaner deleted drivers as well.
AKAJohnDoe
March 15th, 2008, 09:51 PM
-{ Quote: "i tryed that but it deleted some drivers as well....
i know they are unneeded drivers since it deleted amd drivers since im using a intel based pc but it still annoyed me." }-
I've never seen it delete drivers, but you are certainly entitled to be annoyed if it suits your purposes.
TOMxEU
March 16th, 2008, 05:20 AM
Vista does not store temporary files in " c:\windows\temp" by default. Some programs extracts files there, so they are not deleted, when they are not needed anymore, so you have to do it manually.
midway40
March 16th, 2008, 01:11 PM
That is true, there is another Temp folder in the hidden AppData directory. It's path is Users/[username]/AppData/Local/Temp. At present mine is at 226MB. I am not sure it would be a good idea to clean this because I think I did once and when I tried to uninstall a program it failed because it couldn't find some uninstall info it needed in this directory.