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Diff. b/w TEMP and TMP folder in windows dir. ?

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hellraiser
hellraiser Original post #1
Mar 10, 2007 at 10:50 PM
What is difference between TEMP and TMP folder located in windows ?
I found this when i tried to allocate a different partition for temp. files. What steps involves in doing this. Also, last time when i did this some software installation denies to unpack....probably due temp location change !!!
uchiha.sasuke
uchiha.sasuke #2
Mar 10, 2007 at 11:35 PM
i dont think there's any "TMP" named folder in windows Directory......there only TEMP" folder.....tmp is the extension for the temporary file....
hellraiser
hellraiser #3
Apr 7, 2007 at 12:02 AM
uchiha.sasuke said:
i dont think there's any "TMP" named folder in windows Directory......there only TEMP" folder.....tmp is the extension for the temporary file....
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Check Sys. prop> advanced> environment variable