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

[Frank]

>  just delete anything in Temp that it'll let you delete.
>  if it lets you delete it, it wasn't being used, and if
>  it wasn't being used, it was wasting space.

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.
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