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How to Remove Kaspersky Temporary files to Free up disk space

Mayur Agarwal by Mayur Agarwal
February 19, 2024
in How To's, Tips 'n' Tricks

If you have Kaspersky Antivirus or Internet Security installed on your PC, then you will notice a loss of disk space. This space is mostly acquired by the temporary files that are stored by Kaspersky. I freed about 1.3 GB of space from my PC by removing these temporary files, which were around 200+ each having a size of 5MB (Approx).

Here’s how you can free up your disk space by following the simple steps below.

1. Open Kaspersky Settings > Options and disable the Self-Defense option.

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2. Now Exit your Kaspersky product ( KAV or KIS ).

3. Enable the “Show Hidden files and folders” option from the folder options.

4. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8

5. Open the “Data” folder where you will find many files named as av1A.tmp, av2A.tmp, etc., and other files and folders.

Properly select all the files having a .tmp extension and leave all other folders and files. Then delete all the temporary files i.e. .tmp files. Make sure you don’t delete any other files. You will now notice a high reduction in your disk space.

6. Now Start Kaspersky and turn on Self-Defense.

It is completely safe to remove these files as they are temporary files that have been used earlier by Kaspersky. I have tried it myself on my PC, so don’t worry.

Update – Windows 7 & Vista users need to open this path: C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP9\Bases\Cache to find the .tmp files and delete them.

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Mayur Agarwal, the founder and editor of WebTrickz, is a tech enthusiast with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications and over a decade of writing experience. His passion for technology and gadgets inspires him to create insightful How To's and troubleshooting guides.

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Comments 95

  1. abhinav says:
    16 years ago

    thnx for this very useful info…..

    u have helped me recover around 6.5gb of space…..

    god!!! i didnt think it wud occupy this much space….

    kaspersky is gud but i hate these temp files….

    anyway, thnx again….

    Reply
  2. Rohan says:
    16 years ago

    In Vista the DATA folder would be at
    C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8.

    by the way thnx for he tip 🙂

    Reply
  3. sameer says:
    16 years ago

    recovered 2.5 Gbs of space after doing this. Every kaspersky user not using the email feature should do this. Those tmp files are actually email files which have been scanned by kaspersky. Also disable the anti spam feature before this otherwise those files will reappear.( only if you dont use outlook, the bat! and thunderbird)

    Reply
  4. jerry says:
    16 years ago

    Thanks for this; hate trash kicking about my system.

    Reply
  5. Mave says:
    16 years ago

    When I delete, it says, “Make sure disk is not write/ full protected” something… WTF!

    Reply
  6. Mave says:
    16 years ago

    For, every file, there’s an error when I delete. ACCESS DENIED… “Make sure the disk is not full or right-protected”… How do I deal with this?

    Reply
  7. Mayur says:
    16 years ago

    @Mave Make sure you have firstly disabled Kaspersky using the above described method. Then try to delete the files.

    Reply
  8. Mave says:
    16 years ago

    @Mayur Thanks man… I was actually disabling “Enable Protection” instead of “Enable Self-Defense”… Problem Solved.

    Reply
  9. goutham says:
    16 years ago

    I have recovered 3.5GB of free space

    Reply
  10. Serviced Apartment Bangkok says:
    16 years ago

    You have inspired me. Thank you very much. Good luck with your site

    Reply
  11. Muhammad imran says:
    16 years ago

    thanks buddy , such a nice trick ,

    Reply
  12. Husain says:
    16 years ago

    4.44GB freed up via 228 files. This is heavenly!

    Reply
  13. maj says:
    16 years ago

    I thought they could be removed but good to get confirmation, better info then Kaspersky support site, thank you!

    Reply
  14. Sandeep Khanna says:
    16 years ago

    Thanks a ton.I was really bothered with this issue and you really did a great job.The Kaspersky site is quite a misery and to even register is a pain if you are not an American resident.

    Thanks once again

    Sk

    Reply
  15. salman says:
    16 years ago

    really awesome

    Reply
  16. Dhavish says:
    16 years ago

    Freed 6.55 GB . Awesome !

    Reply
  17. kevin says:
    16 years ago

    thanks a million – was trying to work out why i couldn’t delete all that trash on my daughter’s pc. you just helped me free up a lot of space.

    Reply
  18. Ani says:
    16 years ago

    recovered 1.5 Gbs of space after doing this. Every kaspersky user not using the email feature should do this.

    Reply
  19. owais says:
    16 years ago

    Bravo! I have recovered 5.76 gb.I had been looking for a solution long time. MANY MANY THANKS DEAR.

    Reply
  20. Zagum says:
    16 years ago

    hi guys i have tried this method but didn’t work for me

    there is an other method
    simply start your pc in safe mode and get rid of those temp files 🙂

    Reply
  21. Khaled says:
    16 years ago

    Thanks a lot.It was a great help….really appriciates your efforts. I recovered 21 gb from 10 office PC.

    Reply
  22. chandrahas says:
    16 years ago

    where will this enable self defense option be in internet security 09

    Reply
  23. Savy says:
    16 years ago

    Excellent. Truly wonderful.
    I had to once re-install the C drive since I was running out of space.
    These files have took about 10 GB and I couldn’t delete them.
    Again after that these files are building up . Your trick worked and I was saved from re-installing again

    Reply
  24. HARI says:
    16 years ago

    thanks man,
    i had recovered 3.5gb from c:/
    my probs get solved from this huge memory loss.
    thank you once again

    Reply
  25. Costin says:
    16 years ago

    Thank you! You save my day!

    Reply
  26. Emiel says:
    16 years ago

    Thx! You saved me a Gig!

    Reply
  27. SAVAR says:
    16 years ago

    THANKS A LOT! I WAS TRYIN FOR LONG TIME BUT…FINALLI FREED 6.5 GB! ONCE AGAIN THANKS A LOT.

    Reply
  28. wings says:
    16 years ago

    thanks buddy…i can save space more then 1G 😀

    Reply
  29. Glyn says:
    16 years ago

    I figured this out and just deleted all starting with AVP8 (except the initial briefcase). Seems to be fine now and has freed up an incredible 15 gigs …thats just after 7 weeks ! ….Why doesn’t Kapersky dump these automatically from time to time? Lol I thought my comp was slowing down. Come on Kapersky ..this is a bit whatever eh!
    P.S. Just do it as outlined above and don’t worry, it still works without all this damned data. (Bitdefender doesn’t do this, but it ain’t good ….so slooow)

    Reply
  30. NISHANTH says:
    16 years ago

    thank u.. it ws very use ful… i freed about 6.10 GB 0f my disk space…

    but still the kaspersky lab folder is of 3.3GB.. is it possible to delete any other files..

    plz let me know

    Reply
  31. jayb says:
    16 years ago

    kaspersky Internet security 2010 doesn’t have temporary files…. maybe all 2010 products…. I think they fixed this issue already

    Reply
    • Mayur says:
      16 years ago

      No Kaspersky 2010 products also include this issue. Just checked my KAV 2010 in Windows 7. See Here C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP9\Bases\Cache http://i38.tinypic.com/5l75n9.gif

      Reply
  32. S A Faruque says:
    16 years ago

    Thanx a lot. Its really very helpful.

    Reply
  33. Ali says:
    16 years ago

    THanks alot man … just saved 4 GB of memory
    i think it’s one disadvantage Kaspersky should fix in upcoming versions

    Reply
  34. Saurav says:
    16 years ago

    Thanks a lot !!!!!!!!

    Reply
  35. MALAV PATEL says:
    16 years ago

    I HAVE RECOVERED 3 GB ,,, THANK U..

    Reply
  36. ragesh says:
    16 years ago

    thanks a lot.worked fine .recovered 4.3 gb

    Reply
  37. Suresh Babu says:
    16 years ago

    Thanks yaar.

    Reply
  38. naveen says:
    16 years ago

    man u r a genius.love u so much. i vas really struggling wit my c drive

    Reply
  39. wael says:
    16 years ago

    hi mayur
    i follow that C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP9\Bases\Cache
    just i found 2 files so just recovered 60 mg
    i have very low disk space
    how can i deal with that
    plz Email me [email protected]

    Reply
  40. Nathan says:
    15 years ago

    nice man, you save my day!

    Reply
  41. unknown says:
    15 years ago

    thanx dude .i freed 4 .95 gb space 🙂

    Reply
  42. unknown says:
    15 years ago

    @wael
    its
    C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\data
    not
    C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP9\Bases\Cache
    so try once again u will get some free space

    Reply
  43. vivekanand kherwar says:
    15 years ago

    thanks 4 the help buddy it really helps……..

    Reply
  44. GSRAO says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks a lot. Really useful post
    regards
    g.s.rao

    Reply
  45. dhruba says:
    15 years ago

    thanks a lot for this.i recovered 1.5 gb.I was out of disk space!

    Reply
  46. chermany4ever says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks! Jusy saved 400mb. Holy cow… temp files!

    Reply
  47. Saad Ahmed says:
    15 years ago

    Loadz of thanks bro. I recovered 3gb.. i was in hell trouble.. Thank you once again.. 🙂

    Reply
  48. Mr. Styles says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks a bunch for the info, great help here.

    Reply
  49. charlmart says:
    15 years ago

    Hi – What about Kasp 2010 what should I switch on/off it appears different to 2009.

    Charles

    Reply
  50. jerichoholic2000 says:
    15 years ago

    dude, you rule..
    i never thought that i could find a solution to this…!! 🙂

    Reply
  51. prajwal says:
    15 years ago

    dude….where should i click if i am having kaspersky internet security 2009….i could not find tat option!!!…any one knows…plz plz plz mail me!!…

    Reply
  52. Ajay mathur says:
    15 years ago

    i m also using kaspersky 2009 and unable to locate “enable self defence” option please help me

    Reply
  53. Ajay mathur says:
    15 years ago

    hi! i just found it and was a great help in get rid of tmp files….for those who r using Kaspersky 2009 click settings>click on options (on left side)>uncheck “enable self defence” > apply then exit from kaspersky and follow the above instructions to remove tmp files..

    Reply
  54. Rajesh Gupta says:
    15 years ago

    Great tips .. I freed up 2 gb space 🙂

    Reply
  55. Rishi.H.NAir says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks bro u saved ma 4 GB space
    also thnks for puuting up pictured tutorial
    thumbs upppppppp 4 u

    Reply
  56. Snooffy says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks dude 4GB removed! That is nuts to keep 4gb space for temp files, its weird that the antivirus doesn’t clean itself. You are the man!!!!

    Reply
  57. Borng K says:
    15 years ago

    I freed 7.85GB from my drive. Amazing…!

    Reply
  58. Thuy Dang says:
    15 years ago

    Free about 2GB for C driver, thank for share

    Reply
  59. karthik says:
    15 years ago

    thanks for your useful post i have removed 2.3GB of my disk space

    Reply
  60. Baba says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks a ton!

    Reply
  61. dr.murali says:
    15 years ago

    thanxxxxxxx to the advice.i have recovered 7.5gb space.i have been fedup to the low disk space warningsssss

    Reply
  62. user says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks, this helped me clear 12,6 Gb 🙂

    Reply
  63. sreejith hari says:
    15 years ago

    thanks, i got 2.13gb free space after doing like this. 🙂

    Reply
  64. Deepak says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks Dude!! The key is Disabling Enable self defense and NOT Enable protection!! Just Freed 2.5 gb on my c drive !!!! Thanks A Ton!!!!

    Reply
  65. souvik says:
    15 years ago

    thankxxx u sooo muchhh …its helps a lot man!!!!!…. just cleared 9.7gb of tmp trash…..

    Reply
  66. Prasanna.N says:
    15 years ago

    Tnx a ton. It really helped me a lot. :o)

    Reply
  67. Christian-Manuel Butzke says:
    15 years ago

    hey, thanxxxxxxxxxxxxx!!!! this helped a lot. my girlfriend complained about characters not showing on her computer and i found soon out that the hard disc space was completely used up. as her windows is in chinese and my chinese is not that good, the pictures helped a lot to find these bad, bad temp files haha
    thanks a lot

    Reply
  68. Salman says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks Buddy for this cool information

    Reply
  69. Hari says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks alot.. i was able to clear 6.9GB worth of crap from my HDD..

    Reply
  70. Masud says:
    15 years ago

    OMG thanks a lot, i get 6.79 GB back… yay

    Reply
  71. Osman Raza says:
    15 years ago

    Heyyyy….A Bundle of Thanks Man….Great information…i was so worried of that bitchy thing…haha i got rid of it..yayyy 😀

    Reply
    • Raji says:
      15 years ago

      Really cooool guy u r…

      Reply
  72. Baskara says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks !!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  73. Costin says:
    15 years ago

    Good trick! i recovered 6.5GB by deleting .tmp temporary files and now my system works great.

    Reply
  74. Habeeb says:
    15 years ago

    Thank you Mayur and Ajay Mathur. You both rendered a valuable service to the PC users. Kudos! It is this evangelism that makes the Net such a possible substitute to God

    Reply
  75. Jack says:
    15 years ago

    Hey man, thx a lot!

    Reply
  76. Samer says:
    15 years ago

    Maaaaaaaaaan thank you soo much I saved 4.2 G there was just 200M on the C drive

    Reply
  77. deepak says:
    15 years ago

    thanks ,it works well

    Reply
  78. Ramses says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks a lot. This freed up over 2 GB on my vaio. :>)

    Reply
  79. PUNIT JAIN says:
    15 years ago

    hey thanks a lot man i freed up 2.55 mb of disk on c drive
    it used to show just 1 mb before

    do we need to enable the self defense again ?
    i enabled it again bcoz it was showing “YOUR COMPUTER IS BE ON RISK”

    Reply
  80. dime says:
    15 years ago

    thanks man…. i just got 2.91gb back. this trick is sure a life saver.

    Reply
  81. Saleh says:
    15 years ago

    Many thanks man, It was a headache and gone.

    Reply
  82. chrzaszczu says:
    15 years ago

    Thanks a lot! I get 14GB space on my C disc 😀

    Reply
  83. Arnold says:
    15 years ago

    It didn’t work with my computer, “Cannot delete av**: Access is denied”. How can I make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use?

    I’m using Kaspersky Internet Security since 2008, the temp files accumulated are now close to 30G.

    Pls help. thanks in advance.

    Reply
    • josee says:
      15 years ago

      i think that you have to disable self-defense

      Reply
      • saurabh says:
        14 years ago

        Even after Disabling self defense. The Error is still persistent, even with my Desktop.

        Reply
  84. KANNAN says:
    15 years ago

    thanx because kaspersky lab files occupied 5.58 gb memory my hard drive. I have no idea how to delete the files? your information is very useful to me thanks once again

    Reply
  85. Vaibhav Goyal says:
    14 years ago

    Very useful tip Mayur, just freed up around 12 GB of space on my home drive. Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  86. Sarmad says:
    14 years ago

    Thanx a lot. I have recover about 6.5 Gb of my Space. thanku so much.

    Reply
  87. ikram says:
    14 years ago

    Thanx alot my teacher

    Reply
  88. Bino says:
    14 years ago

    🙁 Self Defence turned off. Still couldnt delete the .tmp files 🙁
    Solid protection I must admit. Any help?
    TIA

    Reply
  89. Ereash says:
    12 years ago

    Dear

    I am facing some problem about Kesper sky 2012. I am using kesper sky 2012. C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP11 its become 4.68 gb . Can you help me ?

    Reply
  90. JR says:
    10 years ago

    I ended up uninstalling Kaspersky and getting rid of it for good. Noting but issues over and over. It eat up a little over 1TB of disk space in under 29 days. No thanks I was locked out of my computer for a couple of days due to no more space on C drive and it trying to protect its self from damage. I took 9 days to run a full scan and would crash all of the time. The only thing that worked part of the time was the root kit scan that was because it ran constantly all the other scans would start and stop after a couple of minutes. It would run updates constantly over and over to the point that I could not use my internet connection. And talk about a pain in the backside the Money, and Adult Account setting for every user being forced to instal the cap into my browser slowed it and Outlook down too. Overall have to rate it total Crap ware and stay as far away from as possible lots of bells, whistles, to make you think its doing something that its not. Not to mention the fact that once installed if you can’t find the help you need online or need to ask be ready to pay through the nose to troubleshoot a product not ready for market. In other words be ready to debug their product you paid for at twice the price once to buy and again to fix. Have heard stories of at least $69-99.99 per half hour for “Tech” support. To again fix issues that should of been fixed before being released for market. Anyone want to argue with me from the Company happy to take it up with you, have had it take mine and others Systems hostage refuse to let me on my own Computer.

    Reply
  91. thoumi says:
    10 years ago

    thanks… i just save 104GB… thanks a million…
    was confuse why after i clear off my other doc 52GB, suddenly within 2 days gone…
    thanks 104GB to MAYUR

    Reply

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