[Lewitt]

I am will try to explain this so it is understandable, even though I feel it is difficult situation for me.
My computer is an HP Pavilion, with MS Windows XP Media Center 2005 with an AMD 64 X2 dual core. (If this makes any difference)
I have Sygate as a Firewall and Webroot Spysweeper as adware protection. I use AVG Free Antivirus. I use PC Tool's Registry Mechanic to clean up my registry files about twice a week.
Everything worked fine until the last week. Then Registry Mechanic started discovering hundreds of temp files that it could not delete. On the last scan the count was about 160 files.
They are all in C:\Windows\Temp\wrstemp\SSMS (from here on they are all different, but one example is: 40E22015-5B35-4E9E-A2E6-C67178043CB2.tmp)
I put the wrstemp in the search box of google and came up with suggestions that these files are created by Webroot Spysweeper V5xxxx.
I emailed Webroot last week and have yet to hear from them. Support at PC Tool's Registry Mechanic have been working on the problem for four days, bless their hearts.
I found the files on my computer and they are all marked 'hidden', with some marked as 'read only' I have a ton of them.
I down loaded Belarc Advisor and sent these files to PC Tools support.
My question is...can I uncheck the 'hidden' and 'read only' on these files and delete them without causing my computer to crash.
I also did a scan with Malware Bytes and they do not show up as malware. AVG does not give me alerts on these files either.

I would appreciate hearing anything about solving this problem. Or, is it a problem? I have a 250GB hard drive, but even that has its' limits.

You have my permission to email me directly if you like.

Lewitt