What are these windows folders? and if I can delete contant them?

Hi I have windows xp with 2 users.

my 'c' drive runs out of space and I found that there is a folder with a lot of MB that I think it's telling can be deleted.

so, here's the record 3 - If you could explain on each folder and if it is contant can be deleted, it'll help.

either way, I already deleted restore points.

1 c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\

* It seems that all program installations were extracted here. about 630 MB.

2 c:\documents and settings\ben\application data\

* I can't find the files for installation of the program here, it's looks like programs info-.txt etc about 100 MB files.

3 c:\documents and settings\ben\local settings\temp\

* some folders and files .tmp. about 30 MB.

Thank you.

An executable application files (exe and dll) and some other files are usually located in C:\Program Files.

The data used by applications can be found in C:\Documents and Settings\Change Data.

If the application is supposed to by used by all users, the data is stored in the Application Data folder that "belongs" to "All Users".

If an application is supposed to be "customized" - as a browser that has separated from bookmarks or Favorites for each user, data are stored in the folder of the individual user change Data.

Of course, there are other areas in which are stored the pieces of applications.  The reason that you can't move an application from one disk to the other simply by moving its directory of C:\Program Files F:\Program files (for example) is because most applications have pieces scattered in various directories, not to mention the Windows registry.

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