AboutMichael Troy Expertise I have lots of answers for problems with defrag, clock time, performance, system resources, problems with passwords, opening files, etc. I also probably know of a freeware/shareware application for anything you want to do: sharing Internet, firewalls, games, utilities, graphics, audio, etc.
Experience I am the Director of Information Systems for a large law firm. I handle all sorts of hardware and software problems for over 300 users who use Windows 95/98. I also have a home network of six computers.
3 days ago after I did Search *.TMP and deleted all the temp files that were not deleted by XP Home Clean Disk and Advanced System Optimizer,
All programs ran good and only when I wanted to turn off to computer, I could not as well as Restart it. I powered it off, and then half of the programs did not work. I tried to do Windows Repair, but it did not help. I had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall all again.
The reason I wanted to delete these files is that one program, Info Select, a PIM program is delaying on searches. After I deleted all the files from the Search, Info Select worked perfectly !!
Now, I am not sure what to do -
The files are all Temp. in Folders : Fonts, Windows System 32 , Common files/system, AppPatch, Program files messenger , C:\windows,
1 Is it safe to delete all the temp files (some are from 2001 and 2004...) ? If no, which ones ARE safe to delete?
2 If I delete them, can I for sure restore them from the Recycle bin if something went wrong?
Thank you very much, Gabe
XP Home
Pentume 4 2 Ghtz
2 Gig of DDR RAM
Answer Hello,
Many programs store information in temp files that should not be deleted. Rather than doing a blanket delete, you might want to use a free cleanup utility called ccleaner. It is a free download from the Internet just run a Google search to find it.
