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    Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Hello,

    Our system administrator did a maintenance routine on my laptop specifically disk cleanup and cc cleaner. To our surprise, the temp files is huge like 25.3GB.

    Is there an alternative solution or a tool to remove the temporary files this big? Or perhaps the folder location of these files?

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    The environment variables TMP/TEMP specify the location for the temp folder for each user. Usually these point to a folder within the users profile so that each user has a separate temp folder, but these locations can be changed.
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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    There are a lot of developer-specific file/folder types that get created in the temp folder, and some of them can be rather large... I've deleted about 2.5 GB of them this week (out of a 3 GB temp folder).

    If you tell us the naming style (eg: "xc_(6 hex digits).tmp") of some common/large items, we can hopefully explain which one(s) are safe to delete.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    I've found that if anything in TEMP can be deleted, it's safe to be deleted. I've never had any issues from deleting everything there that can be. If a file/folder residing there can't be deleted it's probably because it's in use for something and so shouldn't be deleted.
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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Look in this folder:

    C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Temp

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by 2kaud View Post
    I've found that if anything in TEMP can be deleted, it's safe to be deleted. I've never had any issues from deleting everything there that can be. If a file/folder residing there can't be deleted it's probably because it's in use for something and so shouldn't be deleted.
    There are some things it is best to not delete, such as Log files for various things, including large 'sets' of them from Visual Studio.

    For the Visual Studio ones, if there has been a failure during an update, keeping the log files is likely to be a good idea - because getting a fix for whatever it was might become important to you (and the log files help you to get that fix).

    There are several other things it is best to keep too (hence my 0.5 GB remaining), so a quick check is worth doing.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Note that Windows 10 is now reserving 7 GB of space for "updates" as well. You won't be able to reclaim that.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by 2kaud View Post
    The environment variables TMP/TEMP specify the location for the temp folder for each user. Usually these point to a folder within the users profile so that each user has a separate temp folder, but these locations can be changed.
    The size of this folder is only 250+MB..

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by si_the_geek View Post
    There are a lot of developer-specific file/folder types that get created in the temp folder, and some of them can be rather large... I've deleted about 2.5 GB of them this week (out of a 3 GB temp folder).

    If you tell us the naming style (eg: "xc_(6 hex digits).tmp") of some common/large items, we can hopefully explain which one(s) are safe to delete.
    si,

    so far these files don't reach GB in size. As an add-on our network/workstations have Sophos Antivirus Enterprise. I performed a scan, no issues detected.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    Look in this folder:

    C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Temp
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    The size of this folder is 300MB+.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by jdc2000 View Post
    Note that Windows 10 is now reserving 7 GB of space for "updates" as well. You won't be able to reclaim that.
    jdc,

    I'll pass this information to our sys admin.

    I did some research and the articles says that the 'reserved storage' is under System and Reserved. Not Temporary Files.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    So what specific folders are these 25 GB of "temporary files" located? If you don't know, TreeSize Free is a handy tool to quickly find out your disk usage.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by topshot View Post
    So what specific folders are these 25 GB of "temporary files" located? If you don't know, TreeSize Free is a handy tool to quickly find out your disk usage.
    topshot,

    Yes, I didn't know the specific folders associated with temporary files. Our systems admin will install this tool next week in my laptop. Will provide updates next week.

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

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    Is there an alternative solution or a tool to remove the temporary files this big? Or perhaps the folder location of these files?
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    Yes..... "Format c:"
    ....and install Linux.....
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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by Zvoni View Post
    Yes..... "Format c:"
    ....and install Linux.....
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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    Quote Originally Posted by Zvoni View Post
    Yes..... "Format c:"
    ....and install Linux.....
    Windows 10 != Linux

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    Re: Windows 10 Temp File Huge Even After Disk Cleanup

    A couple of further thoughts:

    You mention that this laptop is part of a domain. With roaming profiles, the profile for every user who has logged into the domain from that laptop will be stored there. Some user's profile can be quite large.

    Also, the temporary files could include the internet browser cache files.
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