Hi Douglas, When you are told there is nothing for removal in the temp files, are you actually logged in as administrator, or just with an account which has administrative rights? There is a very subtle difference as I have found to my own cost. George. > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Harrison > Sent: 27 July 2004 12:50 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Temp folders > > Tristram, > As I mentioned yesterday, Disk cleanup (at least in XP) is a > puzzling utility. It tells me consistently that there is > nothing availble for removal in Temp, yet I have substantial > amounts in both c:\windows\temp and c:\documents and > Settings\Administrator\Local > Settings\Temp. > I regularly clear Temporary Internet Files via the Tools menu > in IE and empty the Recycle bin, so Disk Cleanup is of > little value to me. > > Douglas > > > On 27 Jul 2004 at 9:18, Tristram Llewellyn wrote: > > > > > A good step is to use the disk cleanup wizard, whilst it does not > > clean up everything it will certainly go some way to > dealing with the > > dead wood in your system. > > > > Regards. > > > > Tristram Llewellyn > > > > -- > > Douglas Harrison > > > ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** vacation ## d > ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. > ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq