Keeping your PC running in top form includes tidying your documents as often as possible. When you are working on files or moving, copying them, windows uses temporary folders located on your system drive. When you are browsing the internet, windows downloads and keep all these sites in your temporary folder. Ever noticed that sites that you have visited before load quicker than sites that you visit for the first time?
You should regularly empty your recycle bin, delete all the stuff in your temporary folders, delete unnecessary cookie files. For some people it is better to do it manually, because some of those files may be important and something useful might be lost if you delete all at once.
You can also dig in to these folders and you might find something you thought you lost, something that you might want to keep or delete.
Deleting these files is also important for security reasons, these folders might contain private or sensitive information. There are a lot of programs that clean everything for you, some even clean your registry files which is very good for your PC's health.
Windows operating systems provide you with simple tools that clean your temporary files efficiently. Go to All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup. Simply choose the drive you want to clean up, and after the Wizard calculates everything choose folders and files that you want to delete.
You can also find most of these files and folders yourself, you have to enable hidden file and folder view in folder options first. Then browse to your users root folder(the one with your name) you will see more folders than before, find temporary internet files folders in your local settings folder. We recommend changing this setting back to normal once you are done cleaning. Be very careful not to delete any important system files if you decide to keep this setting.
Remember to clean your temporary files regularly if you want your computer to run in its top condition. Keep files that may be useful to you and delete every other manually or with your integrated Windows tools. We hope this post was useful to you. Don't forget to check-in soon for more great tips!
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