Slightly longer answer: Windows itself will prevent you from cleaning it out entirely if a temp file is currently necessary to some other computer operation. Case in point: after sending my post yesterday, I decided it was time for another house clean. Some 400-odd files had accumulated (!!
) and I managed to clean all but 3 of them off the computer. When XP got to a particular file in a sequence I was trying to delete, it paused for a few seconds, gave that ominous 'bump' sound, and told me sternly that the file could not be deleted as it was currently in use. But in my experience, there are never more than 3 or 4 files like this. And next time, after having rebooted the computer a few times, those particular files, if they even remain in the Temp file, are reasily removed... (Usually I find they have been quite properly deleted by their associated program after their temporary existence had served its purpose...)
