2

My friend asked me for help with the hard disk space of his laptop that is almost full. I'm about to backup files from this partition to another, but I found out that %system%\temp is consuming too much space. How can I solve this issue? Is it safe to manually delete files here without using 3rd party software?

Edit

Total partition: 100 GB

Remaining: < 3 GB

Temp file consumption: > 54 GB

Also, why is that Windows (OS) let this to happen?

mr5
  • 166

1 Answers1

4

Yes, it is perfectly fine to delete the temp directory. You can do this manually and it shouldn't cause any problems, but if you want to go about it in a "safe" way, then simply run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility. It deletes TEMP files that are older than 1 week.

You can access it from Start Menu > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup.

Make sure you check the box next to "Temporary Files", then click " Clean up system files".

enter image description here

This will delete most if not all of the files in the temp directory.