WD2000: Fax Wizard Leaves .tmp Files Behind

   C:\...\~$CovSht@13-03-97,10-01-03.tmp
				

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The Fax Wizard helps you create a cover sheet and fax a document. You can use the Fax Wizard to send a fax, to mail merge to a fax, or to print a cover sheet to send from a fax machine.

In the Fax Wizard, you can enter the recipients' names and their fax numbers. The Fax Wizard creates a Word document with a table containing these names and numbers for use during the fax process. Each time the Fax Wizard is run, a new file is created. Each of these files is about 20 kilobytes (KB) in size. After the process is complete, Word does not remove these files from your computer or reuse the information from the file in the Fax Wizard.

There is no way to prevent the Fax Wizard from creating these files or to have the Fax Wizard delete the file when it has finished. You must manually search for and delete these files from your computer.

NOTE: Deleting these files does not remove them from the MRU list.

The documents are named similarly to other temporary files created by Windows programs and are stored in the Temp folder. The Temp folder in Windows 95 is usually C:\Windows\Temp but may be different on your computer.

You can check the Autoexec.bat file, if one exists, for the location of the Temp folder. You may want to delete these files from your computer periodically by using the following steps:

To Remove Temporary Files

1. Quit all Windows programs.
2. On the Start menu, point to Find, and then click Files or Folders.
3. Click the Name & Location tab.
4. In the Named box, type "~*.*" (without the quotation marks).
5. Make sure the Look in box displays the correct drive (for example, your hard disk drive, usually drive C), and make sure the Include subfolders check box is selected. Click Find Now.
6. If any files are found, do the following:
   a. On the Edit menu, click Select All.
   b. On the File menu, click Delete.