Operating system

Folder / path

Windows 11

%TEMP% or

%LOCALAPPDATA%\temp or

C:\Users\{user name}\AppData\Local\Temp

Change default folder for temp files

  1. Define an appropriate path for the TEMP environment variable (user context).
  2. Define the environment variable SWAP indicating a corresponding path.

For Windows 11 this has the following paths or folders that you must exclude from virus scanning:

Operating system

Folder / path

Windows 11 (en)

C:\Users\{user name}\Pictures

Windows 11 (en)

C:\Users\{user name}\AppData\Local\Temp

Windows 11 (en)

%TEMP%

Windows 11 (en)

%SWAP%