You can delete the TEMP folder in the Windows folder

In the operating system, temporary files are inevitably accumulated, which in general do not affect its stability and performance. The overwhelming majority of them are in two TEMP folders, which over time they can start weighing several gigabytes. Therefore, users who want to clear the hard disk arise, is it possible to delete these folders?

Cleaning Windows from temporary files

Various applications and the Operating System itself create temporary files for the correct operation of software and internal processes. Most of them are stored in Temp folders, which are located at certain addresses. Alone, such folders are not cleared, so almost all the files that go there remain, despite the fact that they can never come in handy anymore.

Over time, it can be accumulated quite a lot, and the size of the hard disk will decrease, as it will be occupied by these files including. Under the conditions of the need to exemplate the place on HDD or SSD, users begin to be interested in whether to delete a folder with temporary files.

Delete TEMP folders that are systemic, it is impossible! It may disrupt the performance of programs and Windows. However, in order to release a hard disk space, they can be cleaned.

Method 1: CCleaner

Simplify Windows cleaning process can be using third-party software. Applications themselves find and clean both temporary folders at a time. The CCleaner program known to many allows you to freely make a place on the hard disk, including by cleaning the Temp folders.

Run the program and go to the "Clearing"> Windows tab. Find the system "System" and check the ticks as shown in the screenshot. Ticks from the other parameters in this tab and in "Applications" leave or remove at your discretion. After that, click "Analysis".

According to the results of the analysis, you will see which files and in what quantities are stored in temporary folders. If you agree to delete them, click on the "Cleaning" button.

In the window confirming your actions, click "OK".

Instead of CCleaner, you can use a similar software installed on your PC and endowed with a function of deleting temporary files. If you do not trust third-party software or simply do not want to install applications for deletion, you can use the rest of the way.

Method 3: manual removal

You can always clear the contents of temporary folders manually. To do this, just go to their location, select all the files and delete them as usual.

Manual deletion of temporary files from the TEMP folder

In one of our articles, we have already told where there are 2 Temp folders in modern versions of Windows. Starting from 7 and above the path for them is the same.

Read more: Where are Temp folders in Windows

Once again we want to draw your attention - do not delete the folders completely! Go to them and clean the contents, leaving the folders themselves empty.

We reviewed the basic ways to clean the TEMP folders in Windows. For users performing PC optimization by software, it will be more convenient to use methods 1 and 2. To all those who do not use such utilities, and simply wishes to free the place on the drive, the method is suitable 3. To delete these files, it constantly does not make sense, because most often they Weigh little and do not take away PC resources. It is enough to do this only when the place on the system disk ends due to the TEMP.