Help! Computer question, how can I delete .tmp files?

[wilbur]

Can anyone hlep? My computer is quite ill, but it needs to soldier on for a couple months more. It crashes a lot and seems to create a vast number of .tmp files that are all over my work folders. They seem to be slowing things down a lot. Is there some way I can delete them all in one go? I have used Windows Explorer to delete a few but I only seem to be able to do it one at a time and there are hundreds to do. I used to be able to do this in DOS, years ago, but have forgotten. Is there an equivalent command for Windows? It's driving me mad, please help!

Hi Wilbur, what operating system are you using?

Normally your temp files are in the windows - system folder and you should be able to sort them by type then highlight them all and just delete. It might say it can't delete some and those will be the ones the system is currently using. Just ignore them and move on to the next and hightlight from there.

I don't know what windows package you got or even if you have windows, i am no computer wizard myself. But if you go to tools, then internet options, it should pop up a menu and on that menu it should say delete cookies, delete files. Try that. If not you could download clean disk, thats good, and pretty straighforward. Hope this helps, i am having probs with mine at the moment seems to be hijacked.

soulfly - that always speeds things up for us ..we're Windows '95 and things do get very creaky

oh dear forgot to change back

Flip, I'm using Windows ME (IT person recently told me it was hopeless!). I don't seem to be abel to highlight these files in a block, how do you do that.

Soulfly - I tried the internet option delete, but that doesn't do anything for the .tmp files in my Word folder - I assume they're copies made when my computer crashed, but I don't know whythereare so many of them. It hasn't crashed 300 times!

To highlight in a block click on the top file, hold down [SHIFT] and click on the bottom one.

HTH

Thank you roisin! I knew it was something like that but I tried carious key combinations but none worked. Right, off to perform radical file surgery.

That's given me such a buzz to answer a 'technical' question I'm not very good with technology ... won a DVD from mumsnet a few months back, so went out and bought a DVD player (honestly! ) ... but I haven't worked out how it works yet. Dh is happy with it though.