How often do you notice that the operating system installed on your computer, laptop or mobile device does not start working as fast as you would like, free space on the hard drive or internal drive is drastically reduced, the Internet slows down and, in general, it seems Is there something wrong with the system? What is the reason?
It turns out that this is partly due to the huge number of temporary files that are created during the operation of the OS itself, are downloaded during Internet surfing, remain after the completion of some applications, etc. You should immediately get rid of such computer garbage, since cluttering can reach that extreme extent, when free space will not be enough for the functioning of the operating system (just to store its own temporary objects). For example, whether you want it or not, for Windows in the system partition always (!) Should remain about 10% of the volume of the system partition free space. If it becomes smaller, see for yourself how this will affect the operation of the computer (this will already be felt even at the boot stage, which will take several times more time than usual). This is where you will need knowledge about cleaning temporary Windows 7 files or similar OS of the whole family. But how to perform such actions? Let's try to figure it out.
What is meant by clearing temporary files in Windows 7 and other systems?
It is clear that temporary files are therefore called temporary because they exist in the system only for a certain period of time. In theory, the operating system should delete such objects on its own immediately after the completion of some application, service or process. In fact, this is far from the case. The problem is that browser files in the form of cookies, thumbnails of images or cached data for quick access to recently visited sites are never deleted.
Few people know that similarly temporary copies of some documents can be created during the emergency closure of the application associated with it. Finally, old drivers or unnecessary temporary update objects of the system itself or rollback points are also dead weight. But how to clean up the disk (temporary files) in Windows 7 and similar OS? To do this, you can offer several basic techniques, which use either the system’s own tools or special programs from third-party developers (both highly targeted applications and general-purpose programs).
Quick removal of temporary objects using system tools
So, you are faced with the task of removing all temporary objects that, theoretically, are no longer needed in the system or simply lie on the disk in the form of residual garbage. Well, you won’t be looking for them yourself in the Explorer! This will not only take a lot of time, but also require knowledge about what can be removed and what cannot. It is not written in plain text on the file that it is temporary.
In addition, almost all temporary objects are hidden, and it is often very difficult to distinguish them from the same system files hidden from the user's eyes, although sometimes temporary files at the very beginning of the name instead of the letter may have some kind of designation in the form of a special symbol like a dollar sign , have the TMP extension or are stored in the TEMP and Temporary Files folders (it is advisable not to touch these directories yourself).
Cleaning up temporary files in Windows 7, however, as in all similar systems, can be performed using the built-in tool.
To do this, in the "Explorer" through the PCM on the selected disk partition, it is enough to call up the properties menu, then on the first general tab click the disk cleanup button, wait for the analysis results, mark the necessary categories of objects in the list and confirm the operation.
Do I need to clean system files?
Many probably paid attention to the fact that when a list of objects that can be deleted painlessly for the system appears, a button below cleans the system files. What does this give us?
First of all, in this way you can get rid of the Windows assembly installation files, delete the residual objects of downloaded and installed updates, etc. When upgrading Windows to the tenth modification from the seventh or eighth, this technique allows you to delete files of the previous modification, freeing up about 20-30 GB disk space. The files themselves of the old OS are stored for 30 days, and after this period are deleted automatically.
Delete temporary browsers and program files
With browsers, this is not so simple. As a rule, by default, temporary files are not cleared in Windows 7 and other systems upon completion of the main application. The user has to get rid of such garbage on their own.
There is nothing particularly complicated in this, since any known browser provides a special tool for this, usually called clearing the history or deleting data about the pages viewed, and among the objects to be deleted, temporary files, cookies, cache, thumbnails and etc.
Automatically clean temporary files in Windows 7 using optimizers
Many probably paid attention to the fact that Windows scans and removes computer debris for so long that patience is not enough. And with regard to browsers, the tools built into the system look very doubtful, since they basically remove only what could remain when working with browsers like IE or Edge (in Windows 10). True, in the settings of the properties of the browser (Internet Explorer) you can set automatic cleaning on exit, but it, as practice shows, is far from perfect. It is much easier to use special programs from third-party developers, because they work much faster and more efficiently. It is possible to use both narrow-minded cleaners and general-purpose optimizer applications, in which there are several more possibilities.
As the most optimal means, you can offer CCleaner, Advanced SystemCare and similar utilities. Any such program cleans temporary files in Windows 7 and similar OSs as deeply and thoroughly as possible. The proposed utilities, by the way, also delete the garbage remaining after closing all the browsers installed in the system, and not just one. Among other things, the cleaning method can be configured as you wish, or even set a schedule for automatically deleting selected temporary objects.
Epilogue
Based on the foregoing, we can conclude: it is optimizer programs that can be recommended as the most convenient and most effective tool for removing temporary files and related components. However, to get rid of the remnants of remote programs, it is best to use packages like iObit Uninstaller, which also clean the registry.