If the files are in use your delete of them will fail. I wanted to do disk cleanup myself and found a large folder in %localappdata% called temp. As hesse said, change the environment path %temp% to an alternate location.
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The temp folder is not always deleted, even after proper shutdowns, and the space can pile up to large proportions. In theory, appdata's temp folder (%temp%) is the place for programs to put files that can be deleted immediately after all handles to them are closed. I always recommend deleting as many files as possible in this folder, as they are only.
You don't need to delete the folder itself though, only its content.
Since windows 11 (or maybe earlier) windows notepad internally stores unsaved files so if the application (or windows) crashes they will be still there later. You will want to delete all files in the folder and skip anything in use, instead of deleting the folder itself. How to make windows to do the same? I've been deleting the temp folder contents since the days of windows 95.
If you are using windows 7 you. I wondered if deleting the contents of it won't harm my computer. The temp folder is for temporary things. The question is quite straight forward, i need a list of environment variables (which is a fixed list) and is answered by dennis williamson.
The %temp% in the run command line will show the contents of the logged in user's temp folder.
If they are not in use, then delete them. Ubuntu deletes temporary files by default after reboot, but windows doesn't. It cannot delete the temp folders, especially in the windows folder because it is in use.