Let's not promote scare tactics. As long as you close all your apps, soft reset and then erase the contents of the temp folder BEFORE you open all your apps its a safe operation. Unless you have an application that is critical to the operation of the PPC but installed itself into the TEMP folder. I'd hope there are no developers QUITE that stupid.
Well, I can't give you any specifics (i.e., what program I was running, which files I had deleted) since this had been awhile ago, but I do know that the one time I manually started deleting my temp files I ended up having to do a hard reset to fix the mess I had created.
If you had applications open at the time it could certainly cause stability issues. Any sort of lingering damage is likely to be the fault of specific badly written applications. That's certainly not the way it should work though. I often often go and nuke the contents on a manual basis and never have issues... :)
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They're what makes multitasking so easy on Pocket PC's I think. Same as your desktop.
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Chris - the temporary files are used for applications that need to temporarily write information to a file to flush it out of memory. For memory optimization for example. When an application closes it should clear up the temporary files, but if it's badly written or exits in an uncontrolled fashion it may not.
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