Can I delete files in my local settings temp directory?

Question

I am running out of space on my hard drive and I see 3 GB of space being taken up by this localsettings / temp directory

C:\documents and settings\[MyName]\localsettings\temp

Can I delete this? What are the implications?

also, C:\documents and settings\[MyName]\localsettings\application data seems to be taking up a lot of space as well?

Answer 1

can i delete this? what are the implications?

You can go ahead with cleaning up of this. There would be few files which are in use by Windows, and you'd error out while trying to delete them.

I'd recommend using a tool like CC Cleaner to clear up.

C:\documents and settings[MyName]\localsettings\application data Holds data regarding configuration files, settings, and other data which may/may not be required. Recommend you don't touch this directory.

Answer 2

Everything in the tempfolder should be ok to delete, some files are probably locked but you can ignore them.

Do NOT touch the "application data" folder. This is where all "good behaving apps" store their data (settings and such)