I have windows XP. I have 100's of temp files to delete. How do I select several at once to delete?

Question

I believe these little batch files are slowing down my computer. There may be a thousand of them. I can't delete them one at a time, I know there's a button I hold down to select all of them or part of them.... HELP!

Answer 1

Use Ctrl button + L-Mouse click to select files one by one
Use Shuft + L-Mouse click to select group of files

Answer 2

If you're looking at them in explorer, there's a menu option from the edit menu named "select all"

One other tip is that you can hold down the Shift key when hitting delete. Rather than moving the files to the recycle bin first, shift-delete will immediately delete the files.

Of course you want to be careful you know that you've selected only files you truly want to delete.

For what it's worth, I doubt seriously that a few hundred small temp files would be slowing down your computer.

Answer 3

I guess I'm an "antique", but sometimes that has benefits. A really easy way to get rid of all your files that have the extension of .TMP is to do the following:
1. Click on "Start", then "Run", and then type in the letters CMD (and hit Enter)
2. From the prompt, type in: CD \ (and hit enter)
3. Type in: DEL /S *.TMP(and hit enter).
That command will delete every .tmp file on your hard drive. It may take a while, particularly if you have a ton of .tmp files. Once it's done, just exit from the window by clicking on the X in the upper right hand corner. Good luck.

Answer 4

Click on Start.. than Search.. than "for Files or Folders". When You get to the search window, make sure the "C" drive is selected and click on "All files and Folders".. then type in the space the following.....
*.tmp
then hit enter. When it's finished, Highlight everything that shows up in the right window and hit the delete key. Remember to restart and defrag your computer afterwords.

Answer 5

You can either hit shift and then highlight all the files then delete or go to start, programs, Internet tools, then disc clean up. This will clean up your computer pretty well of old files. I would use the second choice.

Answer 6

Click once on the first one, then scroll down to the bottom, hold down the shift key and click on the last one. Then hit delete, this should get rid of them all.

Answer 7

Use shift + arrow keys for multiple file selection. Ctrl + A to select all of them together.

Answer 8

If you hold down teh shift key, and select two files, it will grap al the files in between them, too.

You might want to look at a free cleaning tool, ccleaner

Answer 9

Hey!

To delete all at once, click one of them, and Push Ctrl+A, and Delete them.

NOTE: You may not be able to delete some of the Temp files.

Cheers!
Andrew

Answer 10

basically persist with those elementary steps: a million. click start up ? seek ? FOR archives AND FOLDERS... 2. form *.tmp interior the quest container. 3. this could open the full record of non everlasting archives on your laptop. 4. pick all and then delete them. each and all of the terrific.