Loy,
I think you have the right idea - anything in the temp folder can be deleted
as long as it's not currently in use - and if it is it'll be locked by the
program using it. What I usually do is delete all the files older than today
(or whenever I last rebooted). Including any subfolders (install programs
often create them).
Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> I deleted all the files with the tmp extension but there are
> still 56 megs
> worth of files in the windows/temp directory.  Most of them
> look like the
> remains of an update to Microsoft Office that I installed.
> There are many
> subdirectories in the temp folder and some DLL files.
>
> In an effort to solve the problem, I tried putting everything
> in the temp
> directory into a zip file and then deleting the original
> files.  The zip
> file aborted with an error message to the effect that it
> couldn't create
> the zip file.  I assume this error is because one or all of
> the files in
> the temp directory are in use.
>
> Loy

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