Query to Select All Non-Essential Temporary Files - vbscript

Question

I am trying to write a script to delete unneeded temporary files. I am wanting to specifically target .tmp's, though. At least for now. So I am trying to write a WQL query to return a collection with which I can use a FOR EACH statement to delete all of the .tmp's in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp. I've only recently started learning VBScript. But I have experience writing programs in C/C++ (mainly "math-y" programs).
Cscript seems to have no problem with the query itself. But when I try to use the Count method on the resulting collection, cscript returns an error: (17,1) Microsoft VBVScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property or method: 'colTempFiles.Count'.
I've read up on WQL a little bit, thinking that maybe I'm not getting a collection returned for some reason. But I can't seem to find anything wrong with the query. I'm thinking that maybe I shouldn't be selecting from FileSystemObject. But I've read what I can find about it, and it seems to be the right thing to do (although there really isn't a lot of helpful info on MSDN).
Anyway, here's the script I currently have, without comments. The second line is something I am not currently using, but am going to try to use later, so that I can define a variable as the local computer's username and not have to point to the local Temp folder's path specifically. Any help would be greatly appreciated:
strComputer = "."
strUser="adam"
Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colTempFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("SELECT * FROM FileSystemObject WHERE Name = '*.tmp' AND "_
& "NOT Name LIKE 'Prf%' AND Path LIKE 'C:\Users\adam\AppData\Local\Temp\%'")
colTempFiles.Count
For Each objFile in colTempFiles
Wscript.Echo objFile.Name
'Set objF=objFSO.GetFile("objFile.Path")
'objF.Delete(True)
Next

Answer 1

I think you're confusing two different technologies. A FileSystemObject is a COM class that needs to be instantiated using CreateObject() in VBScript. For WQL, you need to use a WMI class in your query. Here is a core list of WMI classes. For your purposes, you'll want to use the CIM_DataFile class to work with files.
You can use either technology. The FileSystemObject is the preferred method if you're working with the local file system. If you need to work with files on a remote machine, use WMI and WQL.
Here's an example using a FileSystemObject:
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\Users\adam\AppData\Local\Temp")
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
If StrComp(objFSO.GetExtensionName(objFile.Path), "tmp", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
objFile.Delete ' This is the Delete() method of the FSO's "File" class
End If
Next
And here's an example using WQL:
strComputer = "."
' Connect to the WMI service on the specified computer...
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
' Build our WQL query...
strQuery = "select * from CIM_DataFile "
strQuery = strQuery & "where Drive='C:' "
strQuery = strQuery & "and Path='\\Users\\adam\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\' "
strQuery = strQuery & "and Name like '%.tmp'"
' Run the query...
Set colTempFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery)
' Delete each file...
For Each objFile In colTempFiles
objFile.Delete ' This is the Delete() method of the WMI "CIM_DataFile" class
Next