Can I safely delete the contents of the Temporary Folder?

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I found out that Disk Cleanup utility in the System Folder doesn't cleanup
the Temporary Folder of any Accounts completely even if it is checked. Many
files remain there after cleanup.

I just want to know whether it is safe to delete the remaining files in the
Temporary Folder manually ? Or Does the Temp folder contains important files
that are necessary for the operation of windows?

Your suggestions are welcomed.

Thankyou.
 
Yes you can safely delete these. If any program happens to be using any of
these files XP won't let you delete those files.

Reboot and then try to delete them.
 
Hi,

Thanks for the valuable piece of advice from both of you -Wesley Vogel and
Jupiter Jones[MVP]. I have deleted all the contents of the temp folders. My
machine rebooted without any problem. So far ,no popups from any program
notifying that they are missing any files.

My concern is why didn't My Disk Cleanup Utility cleanup thoroughly? Is
there anything wrong with my Disk Cleanup Utility ????
 
kason,

Consider using a cleanup utility that works. ;-)

With Disk Cleaner you can easily clean up disk space that is now used by
temporary files like those in the system temporary folder, the Internet
Explorer Cache and Cookies folder, and the Recycle Bin.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/

Cleans:
Temporary Internet Files
Internet Cookies
Internet History
System Temporary Folder
Recent Documents
Run... Dialog List
Find Document List
Find Computer List
URLs in IE Address Bar
URLs in Shell Address Bar
Media Player Recent URLs
WinZip Recent Files
WinZip Extract To Folders
Paint Recent Files
WordPad Recent Files

I use it and it's okie dokie. I have it set to Quiet mode and it cleans
everything on every boot.
 
Forgot this...

The Disk Cleanup tool deletes temporary files that have not been modified in
over a week.
 
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