Solved Hard Drive Clean Up

[ShamrockRig]

Hey there, i ran the "hard drive cleanup" from the control panel to see how much space i could save, it was at 240mb which i wasnt bothered about, i then saw an unticked box named "temporary files" which had a mere 10.4 gb's to clean, is it safe to delete these files? or will it mess up my system? cheers.


Apologies if i posted this in the wrong section.

 

[maxie]

Hi there Programs store items in Temp Folder .. I would check the Dates on them if they have been there longer than a week should be safe to delete ...

 

[ShamrockRig]

it doesnt let me check when the files were last modified, some others do, but not the temp files section

 

[maxie]

Are you talking about Temp inside the Temp Folder ?

 

[maxie]

That is kina strange then all my files have dates beside them

 

[ShamrockRig]

Apologies, i hadnt selected it, it now doesnt show the view files next to it

 

[maxie]

No problem

 

[ShamrockRig]

Can anything go badly wrong if i just hit delete?

 

[maxie]

It would be better to check the Dates mate

 

[ShamrockRig]

Im not sure how to though lol

 

[maxie]

Click on C/Windows and scroll down to Temp

 

[ShamrockRig]

Done, a few were from this week, but i done CTRL+A right clicked, properties to see the size and it only amounts to 36.6mb not 10.4gb

 

[maxie]

That is fine i did think over 10 Gb was a tad on the large size

 

[ShamrockRig]

So its safe to go ahead and delete?

 

[maxie]

Yes if they are older than a week

 

[ShamrockRig]

Okay cheers buddy!

 

[Slartybart]

They are, after all, temporary files.........

CCleaner might give you more details, but I suspect that you have a windows.old folder.

 

[ShamrockRig]

I actually dont have a windows.old folder buddy! not that i know of anyway!

 

[Slartybart]

Do you still have 10 GB of temporary files or did you bite the bullet and clean them up?

An 'update' or 'refresh' of the OS might have created the windows.old folder for you. If that is what is eating up the 10 GB, change your folder view so you can see hidden system files - should be C:\windows.old

 

[ShamrockRig]

Just deleted them, nothings acting different so far, i checked my hdd space before hand and it was 190gb free, done the delete and it was estimating around 11gb of free space added, it added 3gb lol