tmp files in

[Guest Dimitris]

Hello I have WinXP home.

In the system 32 file I have thousands of tmp. files that just keep

multiplying. I deleted them and after a while they just came back. They can

be even over 100.000 tmp files. Their names are just very big numbers, with a

lot of digits.

My antivirus, spyware and adware find nothing.

 

Can someone help me get rid of them?

I don't know what to do.

 

Thank you

Jimmy

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: tmp files in

 

 

"Dimitris" <Dimitris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hello I have WinXP home.

> In the system 32 file I have thousands of tmp. files that just keep

> multiplying. I deleted them and after a while they just came back. They

> can

> be even over 100.000 tmp files. Their names are just very big numbers,

> with a

> lot of digits.

> My antivirus, spyware and adware find nothing.

>

> Can someone help me get rid of them?

> I don't know what to do.

>

> Thank you

> Jimmy

 

The short-term measure: create a job that deletes these files

once every hour. You can do it like so:

- Click Start / Run / notepad c:\Windows\DeleteTemp.bat{OK}

- Say "Yes" when prompted.

- Type these lines:

@echo off

:again

del /q c:\windows\system32\*.tmp

ping localhost -n 3600 > nul

goto again

- Save & close the file.

- Click Start / Run / c:\windows\DeleteTemp.bat {OK}

- Minimise the window if it bothers you.

 

About the temp files themselves:

- What do they contain?

- How big are they?

- How long has this been going on?

- What is your %temp% folder?

- Do they appear in Safe Mode too?