Random powershell output files in C:\windows\temp

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Hi all. I have an issue that is confusing to me. I have a 2012 R2 that is running PowerShell 5.1. The C: drive ran out of space. Looking into why it ran out of space and to free space, I found a bunch of large files in C:\windows\temp. These files all started with aao followed by a random set of numbers. When I looked into these files, I noticed console output from scripts that are running on the server. The scripts do not redirect any of the output streams to a file. There is a write-output that displays the output of a variable in the console and a write-eventlog that writes a the same variable output into a custom eventlog. The text in these files shows the output from a write-host, the output of start-job, the output of receive-job, and the output of the variable (eventlog message). How is this possible and does anyone have any ideas on how to prevent this from happening?

Thanks in advanced.

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Does the log files has Windows PowerShell transcript start at the Top ? Check the script if it is transcribing or not.

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I am not using the transcription functionality in Powershell. I did figure out my issue and it actually had nothing to do with PowerShell, but a scheduler program that was running the PowerShell Code.