The hard drive on my wife’s computer is almost full, even though she uses it mostly for email. While looking for things to delete, I noticed that the WindowsTemp folder contains 180 gigabytes of data.

Reclaiming RAM can help in situations where your system is truly low on memory, but Windows already manages RAM dynamically.

You can give your system a "mini-reset" with Task Scheduler every time you log in. This can help you clear temporary files, ...

Junk files are files that remain on your computer after a task has been performed. Sometimes, Windows or some program needs to create temporary files while doing some task and then forgets to delete ...

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Q: I keep accumulating Windows temporary files, and when I do disk cleanup, it tells me I can safely delete these if they have not been modified in the past week. I do not know this and am afraid to ...

Clearing out your computer's temporary files helps increase performance and frees up space for more data; however, whenever you delete files on your PC, there's always a risk of inadvertently causing ...

Q. You gave instructions for deleting temporary files on a Windows 95 system. Is the procedure the same for Windows 98? A. The preferred method in Windows 98 would be to use the Disk Cleanup utility ...

When you visit a Web page, the text, images and other media are downloaded to your computer and stored temporarily on your hard drive or SSD in a file or folder known as a cache. This speeds up ...