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That depends entirely on the specific files that Windows is
complaining about. My guess is you have references to
something now gone in your startup sequence.

Leo

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Posted by: Leo at June 23, 2008 8:24 PM

How do i clear or delete automatically my temporary files from my cache?

Posted by: John at July 30, 2008 2:35 PM

Does the article apply to Windows Vista? If not what is wrong with going to the windows folder openeing the tempaorary file and deleting all files in the temp folser?. Alsocan I do the same to the Windows Recent folder?

Posted by: William Weaver at September 14, 2008 3:04 PM

Most of my KB is on temporary files. The command to delete these files concerna me. I have never deleted these files and am afraid of opening up a problem.....Thanks

Posted by: Martin Kaplan at December 16, 2008 10:42 AM

Do i hit "enter" after i type in the "CD /D %TMP%" ? coz when i do i get "c:\DOCUME~1\allan\LOCALS~1\Temp>"
How do i put in the rd /s. ?

Yes, type "CD /D %TMP% followed by Enter, and then "rd /s ." followed by enter. Note that there is a space between "/s" and ".".

- Leo
11-Feb-2009

Posted by: Allan at February 11, 2009 5:35 AM

I've followed the directions. the Command Prompt's last line is, "Are you sure? ? Y"
and then the next line is the flashing underscore type thing (_)

Is it deleting the files? It's not showing anything... The article didn't say anything about what it would show, and I'm fairly stupid.

Posted by: KT at April 3, 2009 1:59 PM

download and install the free ccleaner it's safe and effective in cleaning temp and recycled files

Posted by: Mark Jacobs at June 12, 2009 4:19 AM

Omg, thank you my computer has been running slow for a really long time. I thank you dude

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