Windows 10: My drive keeps filling with thousands of tmp files

My hard drives keeps filling with tmp files, I try deleting them but within a couple of hours they're all back again and when I say filling up, I mean filling up 30,000 of them got deleted at the last count.


I've tried the microsoft store fix that was issued as a potential solution to problem but that hasn't worked.


This has been going on for days now, I've tried everything I can think of including scanning for malware but nothing works, I clear them and within a couple of hours my disk is full up again and my laptop grinds to a halt.


I'd appreciate any help




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How to change location of MSI????.tmp file

Hi,

You may change the location of the .tmp file by following the steps provided below:

• Go to This PC.
• Right-click This PC, and then select Advanced System Setting.
• Click Environment Variables.
• Under system variable, double-click tmp and change the path for the file of your reference.

If the location still can't be changed, we suggest that you post it on our
MSDN forum. We have highly technical users and IT professionals there that can address your concern.

Feel free to contact us if you have other concerns.

 

C Drive Keeps Filling Up

Thanks. Extremely interesting article. I followed the steps as outlined, but when I was as the step to Stop the Windows Modules Installer Service, it was already stopped. So I was not quite sure how to proceed, so I abandoned the process. Since I had
already manually deleted most of the cab files, I now have 190 GB free space. I will closely monitor the free space to see how quickly it fills up, and if it fills up as quickly as the article suggests might happen, I will try again to follow the instructions
to see if I can get it to work. With the service already stopped, and set to Manual, if I get to that point again, do you have any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks again for this very insightful article -- it sure explains a lot.

 

Hundreds of MSI####.tmp files in C:/ Drive

Hi,

Update to my previous posts.

I managed to delete all 1890 MSI####.tmp files on C:/ Drive by doing this
( Warning this caused a further complication so please read full post before doing this ):-

Right click on C:/ drive and opening Properties

On the Security Tab

To change permissions click edit

on Edit change from System to ( My name ) on list of Group or User names click Add

Then on Permissions for Authenticated Users click on Full Control

Click OK and then Apply and OK

This will open a Dialog Box asking if you want to change C:/ drive permissions click yes OK.

Then change will run on C:/

After this has finished select all MSI####.TMP files and select delete and select yes to Delete all files.

I finally thought that I had found the solution when all the MSI####.TMP files vanished.

Then I rebooted computer but it just stayed on Restarting Computer Screen and would not go any further.

I then tried several ways of trying to recover Windows ( Booting to Safe Mode, Startup Repair, System Restore, Windows Repair Disk and CMD with chkdsk or fixboot. etc..., did not work.

There may have been a way to fix the Restarting problem, but as I had a System Image from before when I started getting the MSI.tmp files, I finally re-imaged which gave me a clean C:/ Drive.

I know this was not a Solution to the original problem but for me it was the final solution, so I am now going to close this post but mark it as Unsolved.

Thanks for the help and suggestions from ZigZag3143

Regards,

Mike