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Delete or clean unused or temporary files in Windows XP/7

Temporary files are created in system hard drive temporarily during installation of software or run time of program or installation of program or browsing of websites. Some temporary files are deleted automatically after installation or execution of program but some files are still in the hard drive. These files occupy space in hard drive and spaces are increased with number of files. So when there are many temp files in hard drive it creates problem and available disk space is drastically reduce. There are two types of temporary files one is related to windows and another is related to user. So there are two specific location for temp file in system, one is located under Windows folder another is under documents->user->local settings.

Besides those, it may created in different location depends on program which creates it.

From this study, we observe most of temp files are created in the drive where operating system installed and it reduce the system drive space which may hamper our system performances when the size of temp files is large enough.

Below I show how to delete or clean temp files from system to speed up system speed:-

1. Go to Star button-> click on RUN->type %temp%, for temporary files in current user.

Now you select all files and delete them to clean.
Delete temporary files
Clean Temporary Files
2. Another Temp file in Windows\Temp. Click on Start menu-> go to RUN-> type %SystemRoot%\temp
Delete your necessaries file, but some files can't delete due to used by running process.  

3. Other option, go to start menu-> click on search->then click on for files and folders->A new window will open; in left pane click on All files and folders, now type *.tmp in the first input box, select all drive in look in drop-down box. All files with .tmp extension will show, now select all by Ctrl+A, and delete it from here.

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