Vista Temp Files Location

red_fox

I'm trying to find where my temporary files are in Vista, when I go to disk cleanup it says I've over 1gb and I want to get to the files, I think there's something in there I want so I don't just want to get rid. I used the search but it doesn't show up, so either it's not there or it doesn't scan them.

I can view hidden files and folders but C:\windows\temp is empty, where else should I be looking?

Karoma

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp (%USERPROFILE% = ex: C:\Users\yourlogin)

now...crazy idea but why not let Disk Cleanup do its job? mneh

BostonB

Karoma wrote:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp (%USERPROFILE% = ex: C:\Users\yourlogin)

now...crazy idea but why not let Disk Cleanup do its job?

Not it used it myself. Does it recover files?

red_fox

Cheers for that, on a different computer right now but I should get around to it later.

Peteee

start --> Run and type %temp% should bring up your temporary directory

Alun

Whatever the setting of the %temp% and %tmp% variables, some stuff also inevitably finds it's way into C:\WINDOWS\TEMP too for some reason.

Peteee

Alun wrote:

Whatever the setting of the %temp% and %tmp% variables, some stuff also inevitably finds it's way into C:\WINDOWS\TEMP too for some reason.

Lazy programmers hard coding the path.