Deleting unnecessary temp files

May 26 , 2006 2:48 PM

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Often times you will find a lot of temp files on your computer that shouldn’t be there. This may be due to an abnormal system shutdown. You might want to delete these files since they may cause problems somewhere down the road. Before deleting them, however, you should copy the temp files to a floppy and go ahead and delete them. After making copies, it will be safe to delete them. To delete these files:

1. From the desktop press F3.
2. This will open the Find: All Files dialog box.
3. In the Named field type *.tmp.
4. In the Look in field, click the down arrow and select the drive you want to search.
5. Click Find Now.
6. When the search results appear, from the View menu select Arrange Icons, and click by Date.
7. Select all of the temp files that are not dated to the current day and hit the
8. Delete button.