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Delete-Temp was created in November 2005 by the developer Obiora Embry.  He felt that it was a time-consuming task to remove all of the temporary files (some were at least a year old) that he found on his work laptop running Windows XP.  He did not know of a built-in utility or free software that would do it, so he wrote a Perl script that would recursively delete temporary files.

Over the last 3 years, he has made a few minor changes and improvements, but starting in October 2008, he began rewriting the original procedural script and changed to Object-Oriented (OO) programming.  Between October and November 2008, he developed a command-line (CL) version, added an option to view the output in XML format, improved and made bug fixes to the code, among other changes.

In August 2009, he updated the code to include support for non-Windows users, added an option to specify a directory for saving the generated report, and other changes.