(Quick Tip) Where to find the Temporary Files folder Location

Your encoding something, reading manuals at Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer then suddenly unexpected happens like, the power shuts down. Your saving all the files of the website your working and your backing up all the necessary files needed to keep the website information running.

Here’s how to find the temporary files folder location.

echo %temp% or echo %tmp%

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. C:\Users\hp>echo %tmp% C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Temp C:\Users\hp>

C:\Windows\Temp

Are you having some problem cleaning up your computer?

C:\Windows\Temp is the location of the Users temporary files combined with the temporary files being use by the system itself.

Internet Explorer

If you want to clear all the temporary files so that internet explorer will download and get the new website data instead of the previous one, here’s the location of the temporary internet files for IE:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

These are the stored files location needed to keep a website running with no problem (including cookies and other website information).

Google Chrome

For Google Chrome, Here’s a more detailed view of its temporary files:

http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-temporary-files-location.html

 

That’s it! Thanks for reading the article!