FredG

I went back and reread the "Only delete files in Windows Temp folder older than 48 hours" . Am just curious if this box is checked it ONLY deletes files in the WINDOWS Temp folder and leaves all other folders untouched??

That worked. Took a long time but it is all cleaned out now. Strange!! Guess I don't understand what that setting does!?? Thanks for all of your help!

Most of these files are time stamped prior to 7/2008 with some going back to 2006. The majority are .tmp files with a few .txt, .csv, .log, etc. Most of the directories end in .tmp while some have names like {F03DCCCE-243B-4944-A808-35A74C2E39C1}. I know I can manually delete the files or be safe and rename them but I am curious why CCleaner doesn't delete them??? The "48 hour" should have no effect since 98% of the files are dated prior to that. It's as if CCleaner doesn't know that the directory exists??? It looks like some of the files are involved with setups/installs while others are used by running programs that are using temp files.

Windows XP Pro SP2. Only 1 user and I am the admin. Under C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Local Settings\Temp there are 36,735 files, 1690 folders for 5.2gb and under C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files I have 2583 files in 7 folders for 45.4 mb. I have run CCleaner and MS Disk Cleanup and neither one has removed all of these files. How do I remove them and is it safe to do so?? I know how to remove the files manually but I would rather let a tool do it. Why doesn't CCleaner clean them up??