XML temp files

[Jon Cosby]

What's with these XML files filling up my temp folder (imt***.xml)? Just
started after installing sp2. Yesterday alone there were 57 of these files
taking 12 MB.

Jon

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Jon Cosby wrote:

Hi

This is a bug introduced by SP2.

Those imt*.xml files are created when using "Help and Support" as
well as ordinary help files :-(

This means that people that uses help files and "Help and Support" a
lot will lose a lot of hard disk space if they doesn't clean out the
temp folder regularly. Microsoft is aware if this issue.

To delete those file automatically at every logon, you could create a
batch file in the Startup folder (preferably the one for "All Users").

To open the "All Users" Startup folder, run the line below from
Start/Run (including the double quotes!):

"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"

Create a file with the file extension .bat and put the following
line into it:

del %tmp%\imt*.xml

If you want to avoid the command prompt that will flash by at each
logon after doing the above, use a VBScript file instead of a batch
file.

Create a file with the file extension .vbs and put the following
into it:

'--------------------8<----------------------
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCmd = "%comspec% /c del %tmp%\imt*.xml"
objShell.Run strCmd, 0, True
'--------------------8<----------------------

--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

[Zathras]

I got the same problem (since SP2). The files are created each time a link
is clicked in Help and Support Center.
They are also created when using the help from MS Visual Studio NET 2003.

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