Windows 2000 temp folders

[RBH]

Historically, I knw that temporary files, especially one whose date/time is not the current Windows session can be deleted. In Win 95, I regularly went into the Windows\Temp folder, and cleaned it out.

In Windows 2000, the folder WINNT\Temp is usually empty. But if I go to Documents and Settings\Ronald B. Hirsch\Local Settings\Temp, there all kinds of folders and files parked in there, some with very weird names.

Here are some of the folder names

{25ee77d0-e05b-11d3-9812-00a0cc555167}
{66349b1a-a8cb-4dbf-8643-febe86f8af16}
{befcb74c-c49f-4327-8edf-3a81a574ac0f}

Some of these weird named folders contain only a subfolder, with a large list of fonts. I have no idea where they came from. Other folders contain files that do not have a tmp extension, but some are exe and dll, etc.. I assume that these were put there when some program was installed, but was not courteous enough to clean up its trash afterwards

My question is - can I assume that all this junk can be deleted? I would assume that anything in this temp folder with date/time before now, is just trash waiting for the garbage truck.

Ron Hirsch

 

[iowtech]

In w2k each user has a different temporary folder. (quite sensible if you think about it!)

So yeah, anything older than a day or two can be deleted safely out of any of the user temp folders.

 

[iowtech]

Ron

By the way, you can check what your current temp folder is by typing from a command prompt:

echo %TEMP%

This should point to your local settings temp folder.