Windows Temp Folder

[Panama Red]

This is probably an easy question and I'm just not seeing it clearly. When I go to Disk Cleanup, it shows my temp folder as empty, with a comment that you can safely delete files that have not been used in over a week. The confusing part is when I go thru My Computer/C drive/Windows/Temp there is 30.4MB of data in there. Some folders are empty, but some are not. When I do a search for the named files, they all appear to be duplicates of the app files and dll's stored elsewhere on the system. My question is this. Can I safely delete everything in my Windows Temp folder? Why doesn't Disk Cleanup recognize these items as removable? By the way, we're talking XP Home.

[doctorgonzo]

I usually just delete everything in the temp folder myself, and I have never had a problem with doing this. I firmly believe that if a program uses the temp folder to store critical files, it is a poorly written program that should not be on my PC.

[Panama Red]

Thanx doc, that's what I suspected, but sometimes with good ole' MS, you never know for sure. Still curious tho' why they don't appear in Disk Cleanup.

[doctorgonzo]

Disk Cleanup is questionable in my eyes. Not only does it not delete things in the temp folder, it says that the web browser cache is empty when it really isn't. I don't know why it isn't accurate.

[andyms18a]

dose Disk Cleanup have a date check so it will not remove files that are x no of days old ?