Resolved Should [username]AppData/Local/Temp be empty upon reboot?

I'm troubleshooting MS Word repeatedly shutting down and then offering to restart teh program. I read online that one of the problems that could make Word do this is when the temp folder is not being emptied. Upon reboot, I saw that AppData/Local/Temp was still full (with many subfolders)--that I saw immediately before I rebooted.

(1) Should this be empty upon a reboot?

(2) Its ok to delete all the files, right? Sorry for a stupid question but I've borked things up before thinking "Nothing could go wrong if I do this... "

 

The easiest way to get to your Temp folder is to type %temp% in the Start Run box.

If you wish to navigate to...C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Temp... you will have to show BOTH hidden and system files in Control Panel/ Folder Options/ View.

Wonder what you have in there that is making it do this?

 

Not sure what is in there.....

I've made a shortcut on my desktop so I can access it conveniently any time need to.

Is it safe to delete it?

And should it be cleared automatically on reboot?

 

OK, thanks, I just deleted that folder.

I normally have it deleted by a cleanup program I use a few times a month; not sure why this would have been a factor, but a post on the MS Answers forum suggested this, that's all.

Not sure why I got that error message. At any rate, it hasn't been happening for a while now.....

I'd like to keep this open for a few days to make sure this doesn't happen again, then I'll mark it as solved.

 

You can do that if you like but, it's easy to deselect 'resolved'.