Emptying Windows temp folder is a good idea?
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Published on 2012-04-28T11:41:49Z
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Am using DELL Inspiron
with Windows 7
.
As far as I know emptying the windows temp folder would be good. But I faced a strange behaviour around 8 months back, when I clear my windows temp folder. The next day onwards, my laptop starting displaying daily one or other errors and one day OS got crashed. Till now I am not sure whether OS got crashed due to clearing the windows temp folder or something else is problem.
Here Windows temp folder mean "C:\Windows\Temp"
This is the behind the story.
Today, this temp folder "C:\Windows\Temp"
contains
102 GB
Most of the space occupied by the files starts with etilqs_*.*
. I came to know that these files are generated due to WD SmartWare
.
Now my problem is:-
Actually I want clean up this folder, since it occupies lot of space.
If I clean up "C:\Windows\Temp"
folder, will my laptop face the same kind of problem which I faced earlier OR Any new problems will occur?
Please suggest me a good solution.
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