Temporary files generated by Headstart (?!)

Hi everyone,
I am working at a certain company which uses Designer 2.1.2 with Headstart.
We have had certain complaints from users whose harddrives were full.
In their TEMP directory there are dozens of files starting with dat, idx or s.
Some of these files can grow to 20, 30 or 300MB! The TEMP directoryof a certain user was about 1.5Gb!
A co-worker has made a TAR (489646) on Metalink about this. The answer was that the files contain references to Headstart, but they didn't have a solution.
If these files were made by Headstart in any way, is there any possibility to disable this?!
Thanks in advance,
Marc

OK, thanks.
However, if you run a query in a form, the query results are written in a temporary file too.
I just had a employee who could not perform a query in a form because there wasn't enough space on the hard-disk.
I'll write a script to delete the temporary files, but I just don't get the idea why query results are written in a temporary file as well.
Is there any way to disable this?
Marc

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