Thanks, Richie and everyone. I will do it.

But I'm not sure this will end the madness. Since something is causing this
to happen much more often over the past couple of months, and many of the
files have times that are in the middle of the night....and even several
times during the night (and I always shut down my pc when I am finished for
the day), I wonder what is causing this? It seems to me that I need to find
that out and how to stop it.

Halloween has passed, so I can't blame it on the goblins.

--
Ralph IB
Don''''t take life too seriously; you''''re not going to get out of it alive
anyway.


"Richie Hardwick" wrote:

Ralph IB wrote:

I cancelled it and will ask you all for advice. Would I damage my pc by
deleting these temporary system files?

Delete EVERY ONE of them.

You said you have backups.

Richie Hardwick

Ralph IB wrote:

Thanks, Richie and everyone. I will do it.

But I'm not sure this will end the madness. Since something is causing this
to happen much more often over the past couple of months, and many of the
files have times that are in the middle of the night....and even several
times during the night (and I always shut down my pc when I am finished for
the day), I wonder what is causing this? It seems to me that I need to find
that out and how to stop it.

You have a program running that is doing that. You need to stop ALL
startup programs that are running (msconfig) and see if that helps.

If you can't find the problem, you will need to reinstall Windows to
stop it, I'm afraid.

Richie Hardwick