Solved Numerous tmp file in Windows folder


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My C drive Windows folder has many tmp files. These are the two folders that contain the files:

Windows\System32\SysWOW64 nnnnnnnn.tmp
Windows\System32 nnnnnnnn.tmp

All of the tmp files are 87.9 MB.
Both folders are 33.8 GB in size.
As far as I can see, the file names are the same in both folders.
When edited, they are unreadable.
They were created back in January and February of this year.

Properties for one of the files:

Properties.jpg

Can they be deleted?
 
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23H2

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If you check Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, do you see any software that was installed back when the files were created?
 

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tmp are temporary files and as such can be deleted. Any that are needed will be recreated immedately after but these should not take up MBs of space as they do now.
Also run 'Disk Clean-up' in Administrator mode to search for other deletable files.
 

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msmcintosh said:
My C drive Windows folder has many tmp files. These are the two folders that contain the files:

Windows\System32\SysWOW64 nnnnnnnn.tmp
Windows\System32 nnnnnnnn.tmp



Can they be deleted?
Click to expand...
You mean %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\*.tmp not %SystemRoot%\System32\SysWOW64\*.tmp
& %SystemRoot%\System32\*.tmp

I don't know why you'd have so many there, but yes, they can be deleted.
 

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And here you have more than 100?

%WINDIR%\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local
 

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    HP ZBook
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    Intel 6700HQ
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    HP
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    24
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    AMD FirePro 5170M
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    Samsung SSD 860 Pro
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    yes
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    19045.3803
    some Red Hat workhorses
They are deleted. Thank you.
 

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System One

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    Windows 11
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    Laptop
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    Samsung Galaxie Book Pro 360
    CPU
    i7-1165G7
    Motherboard
    Samsung
    Memory
    16 GB
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB
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    Brave
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    Norton 360
POLYSIUS said:
And here you have more than 100?

%WINDIR%\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local
Click to expand...

Apparently, i have 5742 of those. Found out just now, so it took awhile to delete them:

1.png2.png3.png

Did a bit of research - and all this temp files are suppose to be remnants created by Microsoft Provisioning and Disabling their automated taks from: Task Scheduler => Microsoft\Windows\Management\Provisioning - solves this ancient issue (did that too just now - so i'll check again in the future and see if it works).
 

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    WinDOS 23H2
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    Intel & AMD
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    SO-DIMM SK Hynix 15.8 GB Dual-Channel DDR4-2666 (2 x 8 GB) 1329MHz (19-19-19-43)
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