Downloaded and installed Defraggler onto a friends computer. PC running Windows XP with SP3
He just called me and said that after Defraggler completed he has found hundreds of files that look someting like ~98765whatever.tmp and ~98765whatever.doc.
Has this ever happened before that you know of? Is there some setting that we should be aware of to make this not happen? Can we safely delete these files?
I would expect these ~*.doc files to be "Work In Progress" whilst Word is running, and upon closing Word they should be automatically deleted.
Is it possible that Defraggler and Word were both running at the same time and Word lost sole control of these files hence they were not deleted ?
I have a suspicion that Microsoft might have considered the possibility that a third party defragger might attempt to process ~*.doc files whilst Word was still running,
and a VERY STRONG suspicion that they would have decided this was not their problem.