Double-click the “C” drive (your hard drive)ģ. Double-click “My Computer” from the desktop or click on it in your Start menu.Ģ. To find and delete the temp files that the Windows Disk Cleanup doesn’t get, follow these steps:ġ. Please do not attempt if you don’t feel comfortable performing these advanced steps. WARNING – These steps require extreme attention to detail.
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However, if you are a tinkerer and don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty, the steps below teach you how to deep clean your system yourself without extra tools. Two third party tools we like make sure that all temporary files are deleted:īoth are free and work great. To keep temporary Internet files from getting out of control read our tip here on limiting the disk space devoted to these files. This tool does a good job and is included in Windows, but it does leave behind some extra temporary files that you should delete every 4-6 weeks. Next, click OK and all those files will be swept away. You can also get to Disk Cleanup by RIGHT clicking your hard drive icon in the My Computer window or Windows Explorer, then clicking Properties.Ĭheck all the boxes for the items that you want to clean out of your system (all of them are expendable). Disk Cleanup can delete Temporary Internet Files, Temporary Windows files and more all in one easy to use utility. Since Windows 98, Microsoft has provided us a great little tool called Disk Cleanup. Thousands of them can stack up over time taking up valuable space and slowing your computer. Temporary files are just that temporary and expendable. The files left behind are known as temporary files. When we use any program from Solitaire to programming a database, our computers are performing hundreds or thousands of duties behind the scenes…creating, modifying, and sometimes deleting files. Temporary files are used by our computers to provide behind the scenes speed and function.
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