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Best Ways to Delete Temporary Files on

Windows 10 PC
by Editorial Team

It is really annoying when your computer stuck while doing some important stuff.
There are many reasons that make your computer slower, consume
unnecessary storage, showing multiple errors, takes time to Turn on and Turn Off.
One such reason is the files stored as temporary files, this is, in fact, one of the major
reason that causing the above problems. If you are facing such problems then this
tutorial definitely blows your PC speed. I suggest you follow every method to
improve your PC performance by deleting temporary files on Window 10. But if you
are looking for the easiest method which I personally used and recommend is
the last method.

What are Temporary files and How do they Enter on your

PC?
As the name defines temporary, these files are temporary that holds data until the
process is going on, as soon as the process stops these temporary files become

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redundant. Bit complicated? Let us make it clear by taking an example as it is really

important for you to know what exactly the temporary files are?

Suppose you are using a Software of quite large data such as Video editor software,
to run the functions smoothly, your Operating System creates the temporary files
and this holds the information for the time it is being used. Once the process
completed the temporary files no longer works. You can also consider them as
recovering files during the process going on as they temporarily save your data. Now
the picture is more clear, I guess!

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Where Are Temporary Files Located?

Mostly Temporary files are located in two locations on your Windows 10 PC.

%systemdrive%\Windows\Temp
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp

Temporary files are in the format ending with .tmp, .temp. It may be noted that once
the programme gets closed it is not necessary that the temporary files get cleared.

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How Temporary files Affects your Windows 10 PC?

Temporary files keep on increasing with every programme you use, the application
you install, and the software you are accessing. These files may increase from several
MB to GBs. Sounds Annoying? Yes! that’s a reality, temp files may consume your
several GBs memory resulting in slower PC performance. Speed is the biggest factor
caused by temporary files.

It is always recommended to delete temporary files on Windows 10 to keep your PC

fast and healthy. There are many ways to clear all temporary files to optimize your PC
performance.

Are Temporary files safe to Delete?

As the name defines temporary, which means these files are temporary and are safe

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to delete from your PC. However, the currently running programme still have some
temporary files which you can not delete this time. In our previous topic How to
remove junk files from PC, our readers are confused whether it is safe to delete
temporary files or not, so we extended our detail in this topic to get stuff more clear.

How to Delete Temporary Files On Windows 10 PC?

Here we are discussing the best ways to clean up temporary files from your Windows
10 PC. Here we are using some best ways to delete all temporary files and extract the
space that is unnecessarily occupied.

Deleting temp files by manually locating temp files

Removing temp files using cmd
Cleaning temp files on Windows PC using the batch file
Using Utility software to delete the files

Method 1: Deleting Temporary Files By Manually Locating

Temp Files
Open Run dialogue box (Win key +R).
Type %temp% and press Enter key.
Here you will see the complete list of temporary files stored on your PC. You
can easily remove them.
Select all Temp files and delete them.

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Once you have deleted, go to Recycle Bin and remove them permanently from your
Windows 10 PC. Another way to check out all the temporary files which are usually
recommended is by using a command prompt.

Method 2: Removing temp files using cmd

Open Command Prompt. Run cmd as an administrator.
Type below command and hit enter key.

del /q/f/s %TEMP%\*

This will delete your all your temp files. Another method that most prefer is using
Disk Cleanup utility.

Method 3: Clean temp files using Disk Cleanup

On the search box of Windows 10 screen, type Disk Cleanup and hit enter
key.
Now select the drive you want to clean. From the drop-down list, you can
easily choose one. Click OK to move next.
From the list of cleanup option, choose Temporary internet files and
Temporary files.

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Click OK and reconfirm the deleting option by clicking Delete Files.

By this, you successfully delete the temporary files using Disk Cleanup.

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Method 4: Deleting Temporary Files Using the Batch Files

Deleting all temporary files in one go from C:\Temp and C:\Windows\Temp. Follow
below script.

del C:\Temp /S /Q /F
del C:\Temp /S /Q /A:H
FOR /D %%p IN ("C:\Temp\*") DO rmdir "%%p" /s /q
del C:\Windows\Temp /S /Q /F
del C:\Windows\Temp /S /Q /A:H
FOR /D %%p IN ("C:\Windows\Temp\*") DO rmdir "%%p" /s /q

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Method 5: Alternate way to Delete Temporary Files on

Windows 10 PC
This method is the default offered by Microsoft to check the amount of memory the
temp files are consuming. Let us check how this works and how to remove temp files.

Open Settings on your PC. Type Settings on search box below if you are
unable to locate.
Look for System option, click on it.
On the left side list, go to the Storage option. On the right side choose the
Local storage you want to check the storage (Usually C: Drive).
Hold on for some seconds till the Storage Usage will display. You can see how
much storage your temp files are occupying. In my case, it is more than 5 GB.
(I haven’t expected this much).

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Double click on the Temporary Files option, choose the specific files to delete

and click Remove files.

By this, you can easily check the amount of capacity occupied by temporary files and
you can easily delete them in one go. I hope the above methods works really fine
and you easily removed all temporary files. It must be noted that along with these
temporary files, many duplicate files, cache files are associated with the apps you are
using. They are more dangerous when compare to temporary files in terms of
consuming memory. These cache files are not easy to remove as you have done in
removing temporary files. It is highly recommended to delete all the cache memory
(hidden memory). For this, the best method is going for utility software, although we
have previously discussed the manual method to remove all the junk files.

Method 6: Clean out Junk, Cache and Temp Files using

Utility Software
On my list which I am using for the last 6 months is CleanMyPC from MacPaw. An
amazing tool that works fantastic, if you have this then you can easily clean all the
unnecessary files in one go. The feature I like the most about Macpaw CleanMyPC is
that it intelligently deletes unnecessary files. During my first scanning I deleted about
15 GBs. If you are ready to spend a few bucks then I recommend you to use this
software. As it saves your time and works automatically. Let us check how this
software works.

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Download MacPaw CleanMyPC and after successful installation launch this.

On the very first screen on the left side, you will see various options, click on
the Scan button.
Hold for a moment till the process gets completed, one the process
completed the screen will display the number of unnecessary files it extracted.
As previously discussed all the extracted files are smartly scanned.
Click on the Clean button to clean out all the junk, cache memory to free up
your PC space.

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This is the simplest methods among all and cleans up all the unnecessarily files which
are almost impossible to find manually.

Comments
If you have read this complete tutorial, you may be noticing about other hidden files
in the form of Junk, Cache. You might be not aware of this earlier, but you should
remove them too in order to speed up your PC and clean up space. If you are only
going for removing the temporary files then the above methods work well, but for all
other hidden files, the manual method does not work. For this, the utility software is
highly recommended. CleanMyPC is a great tool. CleanMyPC has a lot more features
that accelerate your PC performance, improve computer startup, and many other
things. Must read MacPaw CleanMyPC review.

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