TEMP folder in C drive

Jake'sGran

After making a mess of downloading Kaspersky I need to remove all ref to it and they give instructions how to do this. The instructions tell me how to get to the Temp folder and then to remove all its contents. There are hundreds of items in this folder. Is it really safe to remove them all which is what they say to do?

startrekker

I always delete everything in the temp folder once a week, never had a problem. I would say its safe to do so............... more info HERE

Viper_7

If your not sure, let the system do it for you?

I'll take a punt and say your on XP

START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS>DISK CLEAN UP

Let it do it's stuff, and it will come back saying what can be deleted.

Clear out your prefetch as well.

START>RUN ENTER "PREFETCH"

and delete everything.
This contains a "prefetch" of regularly opened applications and also probably lots of applications you don't use now so they are partially loaded into memory at startup so they load quicker when you select them.
clearing this out means the next few times you log on, it rebuilds the most common applications.

vipes

John_Gray

Oh dear, oh dear. Not the old "clean out your Pre-Fetch Folder" myth again?

THEGROWER

John_Gray wrote: »

Oh dear, oh dear. Not the old "clean out your Pre-Fetch Folder" myth again?

Don't know who is right now so I will go with startrekker.

I have come to this forum from Firefox using a different log in so I hope I am not making another mess. My computer was great last weekend,
loading pages quickly etc but it has gone off again and when I tried System Restore it said it was not necessary as nothing had changed from the last time.