Temporary download folder location windows 7

I found my temp files already but have another question that you might be able to answer. Up until about a month ago I could go to the temp folder and find the files I had viewed on youtube. Those files I could copy and then rename to FLV files. This has somehow stopped working and now what use to be unknown video files in the temp folder is now seen as text files. Any clue what has changed?

Follow the simple process below to clean up:. Furthermore, to clear system files that are no longer needed by Windows, click on the "Clean up system files". To open and use the Windows Disk Cleanup Tool on your Windows 10 device, please follow the procedures below:. From the list of drives on your device, select the drive you want to clean or run Disk Cleanup on. To remove temp files from your Windows 10 running a version equivalent to or later than version , please follow the procedures outlined below:.

This functionality allows you to search for all files based on their extensions. This functionality could be very helpful when you're trying to find temporary files on your system. For example, if you're looking for. To find. After doing that, a list of all temporary files with the extension. Ever wondered how deleted files can be recovered after they have been deleted even from your recycle bin? Well, this is because deleting files doesn't actually make the files go, sometimes copies of them are made deep in file partitions.

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How cool is that? If you don't already have this software, you'll need to download and install it before proceeding. Or follow links. For MVP guys here - I understand you don't like to be treated this way. But you make yourselves to be treated like this. I could continue arguing about some crappy aspects of Windows componentization and update aspects - but I won't.

I like many others have come across this thread whilst trying to find an answer to a 'real world' non ivory-tower problem. As a result, we scheduled an update window with the client, then clicked to install the update on the primary online node, Windows Update downloaded the package and started the update.

Failed update. When it then shut down the SQL Cluster service to install the update, it also took down the drive the update had installed to. It's all well and good adopting the condescending attitude of 'it's not a windows update problem', but the touchpoint is the invocation FROM Windows Update.

If Windows Update is invoking windows installer files, it should either be specifying paths to the msiexec installer, or the windows update team should be feeding this back to a central team to raise awareness of a problem. Surely there is a central "architecture team" in Microsoft to ensure all groups are using the same approach, and to catch problems that are affecting multiple packages and operating systems?

The attidude of "contact each vendor and group in Microsoft" is ridiculous. The fix needs to be done by Microsoft, and rolled out using Windows Update! In the real world outside Microsoft, we also have lots of teams and groups. We don't fob off our customers with "we don't look after this" style excuses. Any updates on this? I am having the same issues that Goblin C is experiencing and can't seem to find anything that helps. This is exactly how I would expect this to all work.

The reality is quite different what seems to be happening is the update downloads to the C Drive, unpacks to the E drive shared and then the whole process falls to bits when the server fails over when the system attempts to fail over to another node.

This means that we have to remediate these manually. Please can you or somebody in Microsoft take some ownership of this and help us techies out. I had an issue today that may be related to this. I installed the windows update to my win 10 machine, and it put the temporary files on a RAID partition.

On reboot to finish off the update the machine got stuck in a reboot loop and the only fix was pulling the RAID card after which the update was rolled back. The problem I experienced could be unrelated, but it would be sensible to be able to control where windows sticks its files. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter.

Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Windows Update and for all I know other MS Update services appears to download to a temporary folder in the root of the drive with the most free space at the time of the download.

Is there any way of steering the Update service to restrict itself to local drives or even better to specify an exact path for the temporary download folder. I have been searching the internet for an answer to this but so far drawn a blank. Did not think much of it since when you can see the correct value after clicking Configure.. I have to believe there is a fix for it or at the very least, a better explanation as to why it's happening that management would be happy with.

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