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Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files
Date 2025-02-26 21:09 -0500
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On Wed, 2/26/2025 8:06 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
> On 2/26/2025 4:15 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> 
>>>
>>>    Anybody having any insight on what is doing that cleaning?
>>>
>>> [1[ C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp
>>
>> It's probably done by the Windows Disk-cleanup utility; and that is only run as and when needed by users, and requires a tick for Temporary files.
>>
> 
>   Not likely. I cleaned up a Win10 laptop just today with several GB
> of TEMP and other junk. It's a good idea to run disk cleanup
> manually.
> 
>  On XP/7 I use a script that just deletes all TEMP files from multiple
> folders and ignores errors, which are generated if a file is in use.
> There can be an app data user folder as well as c:\Windows\TEMP.
> 
>   The winsxs temp files never get cleaned as far as I know. That's
> why I invlcuded the command line for that above. It supposedly
> deletes things like outdated file versions where a newer version
> exists.
> 
>   Windows since Vista has been incredibly bloated and sloppy about
> these things, with winsxs, especially, growing out of control. People
> need to take charge themselves or they'll end up with 40, 60, 80 or
> more GB of junk. I see people on Reddit trying to figure out how
> to get a few GBs space out of a full disk. It's nuts.

I think you can still find small drives for sale.

I use Lexar NS100 256GB drives for scratch here, and I might have
four of those. If used for a single Windows OS, there's not much chance
of "overrunning" one of those.

At the 128GB size, you might be a bit more pressed for space. The thing is,
the SSDs can be relatively linear on price, so if the 256GB drive is $40 CDN,
the 128GB drive would be $20 CDN. I don't think they stock those.

My C: is set to 118GB, and I can see a 10GB backup that could be
removed right now. But I'm not sure going after the nickels and dimes
is going to make a dent in the content. I have a ChromeOS Flex installer
to remove from it. There would be on the order of 8GB of bloat that
is unexplained, but it could be coming from my Downloads folder.

My Downloads is 24.9GB and that will shrink when the 10GB of backups
are removed. My %temp% is 15MB :-) WinSxS is 12GB, but some of that
would be hardlinked to System32, and even if you deleted portions
of the WinSxS, the directory savings would be no more than 500MB or so,
on 12GB. Of course, at 12GB, that is 4GB of content which likely
does not belong there (older versions, used or not used ?).

I don't want to poke at that, or it could spend three hours
doing unnecessary compression of those materials. Which is the last
thing I want done.

   Paul

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