Re: Temporary files accumulating

If you want help with Error Report this extract from my post 2 days ago may
help.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


"SAM" <SAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:333A0979-15C6-44F3-A8FE-FE8013B1C80B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An update.

Re: Help & Support Index
First I registered the regsvr32 hhctrl.ocx. No resolution.
Second I installed the 811630 patch. Still no resolution!

This problem has only occurred recently and I cannot work out what has
caused it to suddenly occur. I have XP Professional SP1.

Re: Temp files
The accumulation continues with at least 2 of the ~DF.tmp files remaining
after each boot up. As you suggested, many more ~DF.tmp files occur on
the
opening of, say, Word but the majority disappear on closure of the
relevant
program, as they should.

As a result of your help I have now discovered the Events log and that was
enlightening. At each bootup and at the same time as the "permanent" temp
files are created there is an error logged in the Events file. The
description states:

"Fax Service failed to initialize Activity Logging because it did not
succeed in opening the activity logging files. Verify that the log
directory
is valid and writabl. Restart the Service. Win32 error Code 5. This
error
code idicates the cause of the error."

I have not been able to find the log directory referred to above to
"verify".

Despite the implication of this, the fax program (XP) seems to work ok.

And just as I thought I had found the source or reason for my problem
(even
though I don't know how to fix it) I took a look at the temp folder in my
husband's less than a year old computer to find that he is also
accumulating
two ~DF temp files of 144kb and 528kb at each boot up! His events log
does
not indicate any errors! So another theory up the spout. I'm beginning
to
think that it is normal to have these two files accumulate at each boot
up!

Seems to me that I might have to live with these problems unless anyone
has
another solution. My fax service is working ok and I can manually delete
the
temp files on a regular basis.

I would like to solve the Help and Support problem though, if possible.

Many thanks for your help...I have learnt a lot as a result.....even if I
didn't think of using Google to find _PTAWIA!!

Of course, if you or anyone else, have any further ideas I'd appreciate
hearing them.




--
SAM


"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

To open...
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Temp folder

Click Start | Click Run | Type: %tmp% | Click OK

Doesn't matter if it's Hidden or not.

~DF[random numbers].tmp files can be created by almost anything. Just
open
a Word doc and do nothing else and you will have at least three of them.

ZoneAlarm can and will create
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\ZLT06a49.TMP
and it can not be deleted because it is in use by ZoneAlarm.

Type: temp in Start | Run to open the folder.

Help and Support Center Index is blank with a red X mark
And, "Related Topics" link does not work
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/helpctrindex.htm

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:0F2E9E10-BEDB-493F-92EE-1F814B4A6241@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
SAM <SAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
I have XP Professional running on a 40GB HD partitioned into C and D
drives of 20GB each.

I recently attempted to defrag C drive - error message advised that I
had
insufficient space to complete a full defrag. Surprising since
programs
took up only 8GB of the 20GB. I did however uninstall a couple of
programs I hardly use in an effort to free up space but this had no
effect.

After a sherlock holmes type investigation I found that the cuprit was
the
the C;\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Temp folder. I
deleted all these 1400 odd files and the defrag was clean and
successful.

I was not aware of the existance of the temporary folder because (as I
now
know) it is a hidden folder.

My problem is that since taking this action two things have happened:

1) Booting up takes a longer than usual and
2) Two temporary files are created (which remain forever) at each boot
up
and occasionally during the day as a result of doing something that I
haven't quite worked out yet but seems it might be as a result of doing
something in windows explorer - like deleting a file - but not always!.

The only other odd thing is that all links in "Help and Support" no
longer work eg, "related topics". Discovered this whilst trying to
troubleshoot my problem.

Apart from the above everything works fine and fast once the computer
has
booted up.

I have an automatically updated virus scanner (CA Anti Virus) and have
done several complete scans of both C and D drives with nothing found.

The temporary files seem to come often in pairs of size 144kb and 588kb
and always have the name ~DF[random numbers].tmp. Some days there can
be
20 or more of these accumulating in the Temp folder. Obviously they
had
been accumulating for many months before I realised the problem.
Unfortunately I had deleted the files without looking at the date of
the
first one so I'm not exactly sure of how long this has been going on -
quite a long time it seems to take up 8 or 9GB of space!

A system restore has had no effect - probably because it has been going
on
longer than 3 months.

Would appreciate any help anyone can give me to solve this problem
without
having to completely reformat or reload XP completely.

Thanks.

--
SAM




.