[thelist] C:\Windows\temp: Safe to trash?

[Warden, Matt]

> Yes, I was aware of that part, I just wanted to make sure that it
> wouldn't mess with the system. On the Mac, there is an invisible
> temporary directory that contains live items (scratch disks, lock
> files for an app, whatever) that are deleted upon the app quitting,
> or the system shutting down. In my experience the PC is usually less
> graceful in it's handling of missing files, and didn't want to touch
> anything that would be 'live'. In this case what I hear is that the
> TEMP directory contains files that are simply left there, much like a
> web browser cache.

Yeah, kind of. There *are* "live" files there, but you won't be able to delete
them from the Explorer interface.


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