Microsoft Security Essentials creating thousands of .TMP files.


  1. avery
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    Microsoft Security Essentials creating thousands of .TMP files.


    Thousands of 305KB .TMP files are being created by MsMpEng.exe.

    They do not remove on reboot, and stop being created if I disable live scanning in MSE.

    They can take up 50-60GB of space until I manually delete, but thousands and thousands more are made every second!

    This greatly slows down disk performance.
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  3. zigzag3143
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    avery said:
    Thousands of 305KB .TMP files are being created by MsMpEng.exe.

    They do not remove on reboot, and stop being created if I disable live scanning in MSE.

    They can take up 50-60GB of space until I manually delete, but thousands and thousands more are made every second!

    This greatly slows down disk performance.

    Try un-installing MSE. then re-install to see if it is fixed



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