A file created by an application for its own purposes. In the days of limited main memory, temporary files were the only way to store large amounts of interim data that the application was generating.

If your storage drive is always running out of space and you're not sure what's eating it up, check your temporary files. They can balloon into massive storage hogs, sometimes consuming dozens of ...

I view lots of gaming .mpeg videos on the net (mostly .mpeg .avi & .wmp). I never save them to files, I just click on them and they say downloading to a Temp file, and they just open in my realone ...

Just like your fridge, a computer's storage space needs to be cleaned out every once in a while to keep things running smoothly. "Temporary" files can get left behind permanently, and big updates to ...