GVIM on windows: way to disable the tmp file creation

Question

I use gvim on windows and I want to know a way to disable the temp file(ending in ~) file creation. Also is there a problem if we do it?

Answer 1

From inside vim:

:e $HOME/_vimrc

and add this to the file:

set nobackup

Then, $HOME/_vimrc~ will hopefully be the last backup that vim makes!