Curious about some files on my pc

[Druggist]

Hey i just wanted to enquire about some files ending up on my pc. I have my suspicions what they are and thought someone could confirm.

First is AppData is this like temperoryinternetfiles stores all the content u surf for on net but applies to programs which store data or some form of history. I noticed that under this folder flashplayer pops up and a folder called shareobjects inside the flashplayer folder has like bigpond, youtube, metacafe etc and other website were u can watch videos. Can this folder be deleted or isnt there a need.

Other folder im curious about is temp under windows. Is this a temperory folder for files before they get downloaded to there location. The main thing im unsure about in here is a heap of files called ipksetup (like 50 of em 1 and 8kb each) They are text documents and contain the following info

18:05:33:941 : DEBUG: _wsetlocale returns: English_Australia.1252
18:05:34:128 : DEBUG: Cleaning working path in a new thread
18:05:34:284 : DEBUG: Failed to remove directory C:\Windows\TEMP\lpksetup with error 3
18:05:34:394 : License "Kernel-MUI-Number-Allowed" queried, value: "1"
18:05:34:643 : PERF: Enumerating installed languages - ENTER
18:05:34:799 : LanguagePack en-US created.
18:05:34:955 : type: MUI
18:05:35:127 : identity: Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.0.6000.16386
18:05:35:298 : cab file: (null)
18:05:35:564 : DEBUG: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Package is not a language type package
18:05:35:813 : DEBUG: Microsoft-Windows-HomePremiumEdition is not a language type package
18:05:35:985 : DEBUG: Microsoft-Windows-NetFx3-OC-Package is not a language type package
18:05:36:203 : DEBUG: Microsoft-Windows-NetFx3-OC-Package is not a language type package
18:05:36:468 : DEBUG: Microsoft-Windows-Printing-XPSServices-Package is not a language type package
18:05:36:656 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB905866 is not a language type package
18:05:36:890 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB925902 is not a language type package
18:05:37:046 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB929399 is not a language type package
18:05:37:202 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB929685 is not a language type package
18:05:37:342 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB929735 is not a language type package
18:05:37:482 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB930178 is not a language type package
18:05:37:638 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB930857 is not a language type package
18:05:37:779 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB931099 is not a language type package
18:05:37:935 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB931573 is not a language type package
18:05:38:075 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB932818 is not a language type package
18:05:38:216 : DEBUG: Package_1_for_KB936825 is not a language type package
18:05:38:372 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB928089 is not a language type package
18:05:38:512 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB929123 is not a language type package
18:05:38:715 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB931213 is not a language type package
18:05:38:964 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB931768 is not a language type package
18:05:39:136 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB932246 is not a language type package
18:05:39:323 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB933566 is not a language type package
18:05:39:495 : DEBUG: Package_for_KB936824 is not a language type package
18:05:39:651 : DEBUG: WUClient-SelfUpdate-ActiveX is not a language type package
18:05:39:822 : DEBUG: WUClient-SelfUpdate-Aux-TopLevel is not a language type package
18:05:39:994 : DEBUG: WUClient-SelfUpdate-Core-TopLevel is not a language type package
18:05:40:150 : PERF: Enumerating installed languages - LEAVE
18:05:40:337 : INFO: There are no languages to cleanup
18:05:40:493 : PERF: RestorePointEnd - ENTER
18:05:40:680 : PERF: RestorePointEnd - LEAVE
18:05:40:852 : DEBUG: Cleaning working path in a new process

Kb... are windows updates apart from that have no idea what these could be. Can i delete em. What are they

[Player0]

You can delete anything under windows\temp\

[Druggist]

thanks player0. Any idea what those files are?

[KODE]

thanks player0. Any idea what those files are?

temporary files... :D

[Mortaldragon]

i have always been putting a question mark on the windows/temp folder as to whether there are any after effects of deleting all of its contents can anyone enlighten me

[WackyComputer]

They're nothing, they're temp files. In the off chance that a running program is using one of the temp files when you tried to delete it, it would say "this file is in use yadda yadda."

[Mortaldragon]

cheers buddy

[Player0]

What Wacky said is true for the most part if you have a good installer that bothers to do file locking.

But I do have to mention that it is POSSIBLE to delete files you don't want to out of temp directories. If you're in the middle of doing something or installing something and you clean out the temp directories to make more room while there's processing/installing, you might actually kludge something with that app. But if nothings running, just go ahead and wipe them out.

What I prefer to do is once in a while just go and boot in to safe mode, then go delete %user%/temp, windows/temp, windows prefetch, internet cache dirs, whatever I can grab then I just empty the bin and run the defragger. Best to do this all from safe mode for the cleanest defrag. I delete whatever I can before a defrag to make sure that stuff I *do* use gets prime drive real estate.

[KODE]

Nice tip P0 ;)