Microsoft Security Essentials creating thousands of .TMP files.

avery

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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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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



Ken
 

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Win 8 Release candidate 8400[email protected]4 gigsNvidia 9600M
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HP Pavillion dv-7 1005 Tx
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Win 8 Release candidate 8400
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4 gigs
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Nvidia 9600M
Sound Card
HD built-in
Monitor(s) Displays
17" Wxga
Screen Resolution
1440x900
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none
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