describes a bug in Windows 10 and 11 systems in which folders whose name begins with tw and ends with the extension .tmp might be created in the folder C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local. The folders are empty. I checked my system and found more than 11,000 such folders (now deleted).
The cited article (and similar ones) states that these folders occupy little space and don’t cause a problem. However, doesn’t the mere presence of these folders create overhead? After all, the file system has to keep track of them. Also, how much space do these folders actually occupy? The file system stores the name of the folder, which must take space, especially for 11,000 of them.
I have 3600, but out of a total of 256,000 folders, it is small. And out of a total of 1,364,000 files tat actually contain stuff, hardly worth worrying about.
Do a Left Click on the first folder, then scroll down to the last folder in the list and do a SHIFT+Left Click on that, and you have the whole list highlighted. Then Right Click and choose “Delete”.
ETA: this only works if the folders are ordered alphabetically and are consecutive, as in this case of folders all named tmp_*. Be careful not to highlight any folder or file you don’t want to delete.
