Will deleted folder recreate itself?

Hi hod!

A folder doesn't recreate itself but:

Shell folders like the History folder get recreated through the registry when e.g. Internet Explorer is started or WinXP at reboot. You can distinguish some of the shell folders by their looks. Compare the History folder and the Temp folder in the spot You mentioned. Shell folders like "My music ", "My pictures" and others get recreated too.

Do a search for shell folders in the registry editor and find all that will get recreated.

I don't think that the Temp folder will get recreated automatically but I'm almost sure that it will get recreated by any application that needs to use such a folder.

Deleting the contents of a folder but leaving the folder itself untouched is simple, high-lite the folder in the lefthand panel, ctrl-a will high-lite evrything in the righthand panel, delete will move the contents to the recycle bin, shift-delete will bypass the recycle bin.

Christer

 

That Temp dir will NOT get recreated by windows after a reboot or a restart of explorer.exe. Some others WILL get recreated by windows:
- Temp Internet Files
- History
- Cookies
- My Recent Docs

If you want a fast efficient cleanup by deleting certain dirs, put these lines in a notepad windows and save as cleanup.cmd :

Code:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
RD /S/q  "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files "
RD /S/q  "%UserProfile%\Cookies "
RD /S/q  "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\History "
RD /S/q  "%UserProfile%\Recent "
RD /S/q   "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\ "
MD  "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\ "
pause
start explorer.exe

RD S/q = Remove Directory & all sub folders without (Quiet) printing them on the command screen
The temp dir is also deleted but gets recreated with MD (make Directory).

 

An app will create a temp dir IF the app contains code to detect that the temp folder does not exist and code to create one. Not all apps contain code to do that so if temp dir goes missing then it may break some apps.

 

Another way ....

Start > Run > %temp% and delete all including sub folders (generally there are a couple of temp files in use which will not delete).