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Killface

#1 June 24, 2008, 11:34:23 pm

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Alrighty then. Today, I was freeing up alot of space on my machine when I started through other shit. I came across a Temp folder located in C:\Documents and Settings\Shon\Local Settings\Temp
This folder is about 4.5 gigs. That gigs.
My question to guys: Is it safe to delete all the contents of this Temp folder or are there important anythings? I know, though, that over half of these files are unneeded, but I want to delete all the files inside.

Thanks in advance...

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Chubby Skelly

#2 June 24, 2008, 11:53:03 pm

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Kill it.

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General Robert E. Lee

#3 June 25, 2008, 12:02:34 am

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Maybe you should download CCleaner. If your Temp folder got that big, who knows what other junk you have just sitting around taking up space.

Admiral Robert E Lee: From an alternate reality in which the United States is an archipelago and the Civil War is fought at sea.

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Killface

#4 June 25, 2008, 12:40:24 am

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SWEET CHRIST, Man-O-War! After running that program... 10,462.3MB to be removed. (Approximately)

Now I'm a bit scared to delete the files in case it picked up any system things... Well, I've got nothing to lose, I hope.
Thanks for that program, Man-O-War.

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Dale Gobbler

#5 June 25, 2008, 01:22:14 am

Meh.
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Hey cool. 1.6 gigs of wasted space.

m
o hap

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Chubby Skelly

#6 June 25, 2008, 05:38:49 am

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Since we're on the subject, I highly recommend a program called WinDirStat. WinDirStat goes through your whole hard disk and shows you where most of your space is being taken up, and even creates a cool treemap of your disk. Try it!

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goat

#7 June 25, 2008, 01:53:55 pm

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Wow, that treemap is awesome! Now I can go straight for the largest files right away, and have a GREAT idea of what's really taking up so much space on my HDD. Thanks for showing me this. You should definitely post about it in the freeware thread.

EDIT: wow, found my old steam dir buried in obscure folders. That alone was 14gb

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