Holy shit

[~Void~]

My friend came to me about his computer acting slow, and his hard drive filling up when he couldn't find what was causing it. He had had the computer for 4 years.

So I looked around his folders for what could be causing it, deleted a few gigs of stuff, but then I came across his temp folder.

Get this: He hadn't touched his temp folder in 4 years, and he's a fairly active downloader. He told me he never saved his downloaded RARs or EXEs, he just clicked "open file". Can you guess the size? This is how much shit was in his temp folder:

Size

80 GB

So I just deleted the entire folder, and it took 3 hours to delete everything there.

 

[Ghost765]

lol...i should check that too...

 

[cool_is_i]

3.25gb here
holy shit indeed.

thanks for this...
edit: cant give u more rep now..

 

[Gilles]

Nice.
Is it fast again?

 

[Pyritie]

467 MB here

*saves everything to desktop then deletes from there*

 

[TheDivineBoss]

80 gigs in Temp? Guessing that your little downloader had been downloading naughty things, and a lot of them.

 

[Need_O2]

nah downloading porn with direct links almost impossible, I bet its online game setups
anyway
What mostly takes is System Backup thing of windows (dunno what its called in english exactly)

 

[Elenai]

I already know what 75% of those 80gigs were...

Can anyone say 'sticky keys'?

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I already know what 75% of those 80gigs were...

Can anyone say 'sticky keys'?

What do we get if we say sticky keys? What's wrong with those? Except the fact they are extremely annoying, especially in a middle of a game.

There, I said it..

 

[Pyritie]

oh god I hate stickykeys

such a useless program that comes up when I'm playing a game that involves hitting shift a lot

 

[Need_O2]

one of first things I format or buy new pc is disabling all of those shortcuts

 

[Samuraid]

one of first things I format or buy new pc is ...

...making a new XP install disc (using nLite) and removing all those annoying programs from the Windows install image.

Seriously, running "cleanmgr /d c:" every once in a while makes all the difference.

And while we are on the subject: Any XP users can probably disable the "Compress old files" feature on their disk cleanup, as such a feature is a waste of time and remains mostly useless.

Delete the registry sub-key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress Old Files

 

[Just_Spectating]

What ARE temp folders anyway? (what do they do, what are they for?)

 

[LordDz]

1.04mb!
<3 Spybot.

 

[Vicboy]

What is the Temp folder?

 

[TheDivineBoss]

What is the Temp folder?

Like the name says, it holds all temporary stuff in it.

 

[Vicboy]

Like the name says, it holds all temporary stuff in it.

I was expecting the folder path.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I didn't see the word 'path' in your post, so.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

oDamn i got a lot of shit there.

/me deletes.

 

[Vicboy]

What is the path of the Temp folder.

 

[syltman]

Thanks for telling, had 1.02gb

Edit: path for it is "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp"

replace USERNAME with your user name

 

[Vicboy]

21 GB.

So that explained it.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

I still don't know what to keep and what to delete.

Are any of theese important?

 

[Vicboy]

I still don't know what to keep and what to delete.

Are any of theese important?

They're temporary

They're hidden for you.

Why worry?

 

[Just_Spectating]

im starting to save things to my desktop, so that my temp folders appear there as well, and i can delete them easily

 

[Ironside]

Hehe i have 0 i always take care of it.

 

[Megafyr]

Lol... I <3 CCleaner. : > (Does that shit for you)

 

[Deathcom3s]

No need to bump this thread...

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