{"id":19711,"date":"2020-07-16T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:12:10","slug":"a-quick-way-to-clean-the-windows-temp-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-quick-way-to-clean-the-windows-temp-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Way to Clean the Windows Temp Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A Quick Way to Clean the Windows Temp Folder<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you&#8217;ve never cleared your Windows temp folder, it probably contains dozens or even hundreds of useless files.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s a quick way to see how many files have accumulated in your Windows Temp folder<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Right-click on the Start button and click &#8220;Run&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the Runbox type %temp%<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/cleartemp.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 tips by Cloudeight\" width=\"398\" height=\"195\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You&#8217;ll see the contents of the Windows Temp folder,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/cleartemp1.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 tips by Cloudeight\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you want to clean up the Temp folder, hold down the CTRL key and tap the &#8220;A&#8221; key to select all the files in the Temp folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/cleartemp2.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 tips by Cloudeight\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Once all the files are selected, tap the Delete key. Some of the files in the Temp folder may be in use by programs running on your computer and therefore can&#8217;t be deleted. If you see a message that a file can&#8217;t be deleted because it&#8217;s in use, just skip that file.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As you can see from the screenshots, before cleaning I had 93 files &amp; folders in the Windows 10 Temp folder, after cleaning there were 8 files &amp; folders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/cleartemp3.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 tips by Cloudeight\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Will this improve your computer&#8217;s performance, probably not, although it could. Think of it as good housekeeping, There&#8217;s no sense keeping useless files and folders, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Now you know how to do a little computer housekeeping you may not have known before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A Quick Way to Clean the Windows Temp Folder If you&#8217;ve never cleared your Windows temp folder, it probably contains dozens or even hundreds of useless files.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a quick way to see how many files have accumulated in your Windows Temp folder Right-click on the Start button and click &#8220;Run&#8221;. In the Runbox type %temp%\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-quick-way-to-clean-the-windows-temp-folder\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,10],"tags":[3990,3989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19712,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions\/19712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}