Guest Tecknomage Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 OK, this came up in some other groups I monitor. Just what are the ~DFnnnn.tmp files you your profiles \Local Settings\Temp folder for? I note that at least one is in-use each logon and the accumulate. Only the older dated of these files can be deleted.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: What Are They = ~DF tmp Files "Tecknomage" <Tecknomage@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:03372C16-D914-4A5D-ACDB-32D765849C34@microsoft.com... > OK, this came up in some other groups I monitor. > > Just what are the ~DFnnnn.tmp files you your profiles \Local Settings\Temp > folder for? > > I note that at least one is in-use each logon and the accumulate. Only the > older dated of these files can be deleted. Some application on your machine creates them, perhaps your virus scanner. Because it is poorly engineered, it then forgets to delete them.
Guest Roger Hunt Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: What Are They = ~DF tmp Files Tecknomage wrote >OK, this came up in some other groups I monitor. > >Just what are the ~DFnnnn.tmp files you your profiles \Local Settings\Temp >folder for? > >I note that at least one is in-use each logon and the accumulate. Only the >older dated of these files can be deleted. They are very likely to be temporary working files created by a Microsoft Office program like Word, and for some reason they are not being tidied up when the document is closed. (They do remain and accumulate if Office crashes, or the computer. There may well be other reasons too, which I can't think of off-hand.) If you rename a few with a .doc extension they may turn out to be Word documents, or possibly Excel files. This is all I know from my personal experience of ~DFnnnn.tmp files and it might be that a completely different process is creating them, but I hope this is of some use. -- Roger Hunt
Guest Tecknomage Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: What Are They = ~DF tmp Files On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:17:30 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote: > > "Tecknomage" <Tecknomage@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:03372C16-D914-4A5D-ACDB-32D765849C34@microsoft.com... > > OK, this came up in some other groups I monitor. > > > > Just what are the ~DFnnnn.tmp files you your profiles \Local Settings\Temp > > folder for? > > > > I note that at least one is in-use each logon and the accumulate. Only the > > older dated of these files can be deleted. > > Some application on your machine creates them, perhaps > your virus scanner. Because it is poorly engineered, it then > forgets to delete them. > Well, it's not a "normal" application like Word, Notepad, etc. The new version of these files appear just after loading the desktop. That means it's generated by a service or other boot-load software like antivirus. -- ======== Tecknomage ======== Computer Systems Specialist San Diego, CA
Guest Tecknomage Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: What Are They = ~DF tmp Files On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:25:19 +0100, Roger Hunt <nospam@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Tecknomage wrote > >OK, this came up in some other groups I monitor. > > > >Just what are the ~DFnnnn.tmp files you your profiles \Local Settings\Temp > >folder for? > > > >I note that at least one is in-use each logon and the accumulate. Only the > >older dated of these files can be deleted. > > They are very likely to be temporary working files created by a > Microsoft Office program like Word, and for some reason they are not > being tidied up when the document is closed. > (They do remain and accumulate if Office crashes, or the computer. There > may well be other reasons too, which I can't think of off-hand.) > If you rename a few with a .doc extension they may turn out to be Word > documents, or possibly Excel files. It is not a user run application like Word or Excel. These files appear at boot and after loading the desktop, before any application is run. > > This is all I know from my personal experience of ~DFnnnn.tmp files and > it might be that a completely different process is creating them, but I > hope this is of some use. -- ======== Tecknomage ======== Computer Systems Specialist San Diego, CA
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