Tons of .tmp files...

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Homer J. Simpson

I'm trying to find out what application on my machine is leaving behind tons
of .TMP files in the TEMP directory without ever deleting them. I know I
can do it manually, it's no big hassle, but as a developer myself, I know
it's good practice to delete your own temp files when you're either done
with them or your app is being closed...I'm curious more than anything else.

I'm very well aware of apps such as File Monitor and Disk Monitor on
www.sysinternals.com; however these utilities, as great as they are, track
so many events that it's downright impossible to filter out things I'm not
interested in--in my particular case, simply associating a file with the
executable that created it.

Can anyone suggest such a utility? I'm not even sure if this is technically
possible, excluding realtime monitoring...
 
The only way possible that I know of would be to have some
kind of debugging program that monitors and tracks all
program activity from reads to writes. Most programs
are "supposed" to clean up after themselves when they are
finished, but as you have seen this doesn't happen. Over
time your temp folder can become quite huge. I gave up
trying to figure it out and I found a utility that will
empty out the temp folder automatically every time the
computer is rebooted. It's called "cleanIt".
 
Gerry said:
The only way possible that I know of would be to have some
kind of debugging program that monitors and tracks all
program activity from reads to writes. Most programs
are "supposed" to clean up after themselves when they are
finished, but as you have seen this doesn't happen. Over
time your temp folder can become quite huge. I gave up
trying to figure it out
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Yeah, I'm thinking of various ways to do this myself, but I'm also thinking
the result won't be worth the effort.
and I found a utility that will
empty out the temp folder automatically every time the
computer is rebooted. It's called "cleanIt".
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I call it calling a batch file from the Startup menu. :-p
 
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