The temp folder is not always deleted, even after proper shutdowns, and the space can pile up to large proportions. You don't need to delete the folder itself though, only its content. You can safely select everything, and shift-delete the files to permanently delete the files. It will fail deleting everything and will complain that some files are in use. Just say Ignore for all occurrences ...
I wanted to do disk cleanup myself and found a large folder in %localappdata% called Temp. I wondered if deleting the contents of it won't harm my computer. All I know about "temp" folder...
Since Windows 11 (or maybe earlier) Windows Notepad internally stores unsaved files so if the application (or Windows) crashes they will be still there later. For example, Notepad++ stores those temp
My advice would be to create a new folder in the temp directory and move any files/folders you want to delete to the new folder, check if everything still works.
I'm looking for a reference list of shortcuts like %TEMP%. When I'm using Windows+R or Windows Explorer and type %temp%, the Windows Explorer takes me to the Temp directory.
Windows XP cannot find the Windows TEMP folder using %temp% in the run command window Ask Question Asked 12 years, 10 months ago Modified 12 years, 10 months ago
Anyway, the standard temporary directory in a typical Linux system is /tmp. It is the equivalent of C:\Temp in the sense that it is only the default temporary directory, not universal. Even if /tmp is available, if a user (or the system) has set the TEMP environment variable, the value of that variable should be used instead.
It's very uncommon and that might explain why you never read about it in relation to the temporary profile issue. In my case the Logon Script was listed in the Profile path, meaning on Login the PC was trying to find an entry, that didn't exist. Thereby creating a temp profile since it couldn't resolve the issue.
Download the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool from Microsoft's GitHub and extract it to a temporary folder (for example: C:\Temp) Download .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0 x64 and place it in a temporary folder (for example, C:\Temp\App).
