{"id":28682,"date":"2024-07-04T08:07:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=28682"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:07:41","slug":"how-to-quickly-clean-the-windows-temp-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-quickly-clean-the-windows-temp-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Quickly Clean the Windows Temp Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span class=\"auto-style1\">How to Quickly Clean the Windows Temp Folder<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This tip is for Windows 10 and Windows 11<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you\u2019ve never cleared your Windows temp folder, it probably contains dozens or even hundreds of useless files.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here\u2019s a quick way to see how many files have accumulated in your Windows Temp folder<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Right-click on the Start button and click \u201cRun\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the Run box type <strong>%temp%<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><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-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You\u2019ll see the contents of the Windows Temp folder,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><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-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/temp11.png\" alt=\"Temp Files - Windows 11\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you want to clean up the Temp folder, hold down the CTRL key and tap the \u201cA\u201d key to select all the files in the Temp folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><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-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">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\u2019t be deleted. If you see a message that a file can\u2019t be deleted because it\u2019s in use, just skip that file.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">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. As long as Windows is running, new temp files will continue to be created so it&#8217;s unlikely you&#8217;ll ever see nothing in the Temp folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><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-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Will this improve your computer\u2019s performance, probably not, although it could. Think of it as good housekeeping. There\u2019s no sense in keeping useless files and folders, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now you know how to do a little quick computer housekeeping you may not have known before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Quickly Clean the Windows Temp Folder This tip is for Windows 10 and Windows 11 If you\u2019ve never cleared your Windows temp folder, it probably contains dozens or even hundreds of useless files.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a quick way to see how many files have accumulated in your Windows Temp folder Right-click on the Start button\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-quickly-clean-the-windows-temp-folder\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682"}],"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=28682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28683,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682\/revisions\/28683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}