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Posted by louise on July 27, 2006, 10:22 pm
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>> Hi
>>
>> I noticed that my hard disk was getting full without any downloads of
>> any major installations.
>>
>> In the windows\temp folder I found 1897 files that took up about 25
>> gig in total. these files were named Acr####.tmp with #### being a
>> hexadecimal number.
>
> Have you been using Acrobat as a reader?? That puts large files with
> that "Acr1234.tmp" sort of thing in the Temp folder.
>
> As for Perflib, etc. I have 2 files in there and they have been there
> since Day 1. No virus involved.
>
> Clean out your Temp and TIF folders every day as a matter of good
> housekeeping......along with Disk Cleanup and Defrag at least once a
> week. That is just a few housekeeping items......there are more. Sun
> Java, Mozilla Firefox, etc.
>
> Heather
>> I also noticed some files called perfib_perfdata### in that directory.
>> Does anyone know if these have been placed by a virus or just some
>> application gone wrong?
>>
>> I use AVG as my virus scanner.
>>
>> Any assistance appreciated.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
>
Take a look at CCleaner (or....crap cleaner). It is free
and it is quite efficient at getting rid of this stuff and
at letting you choose what to keep and what it should
consider "crap".
Louise
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