Emptying Windows temp folder is a good idea?

Posted by Siva Charan on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Siva Charan
Published on 2012-04-28T11:41:49Z Indexed on 2012/09/30 3:40 UTC
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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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