Hi,
I am cleaning my computer regularly with CCleaner and I found out that each time it founds over 2 GB of temp files, but when I click clean it doesn't clean anything.
When I use disk cleanup utility, it doesn't find any temp files.
When I open %TEMP% folder, the files are really inside.
Is it normal to have that much temporary files in a computer?
If not, what can I do with them? Is it safe to clean them manually?
Thank You for Your answer!
Dominik
It's difficult to generalize on temp files accumulating since it depends on how you use your computer, especially on the internet.
Have you checked that your CCleaner is fully uptodate -- v4.05.4250 (26 Aug 2013) is the mosst recent at the moment.
You can check Version Histories here: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/version-history
dominiksep wrote:Hi,
I am cleaning my computer regularly with CCleaner and I found out that each time it founds over 2 GB of temp files, but when I click clean it doesn't clean anything.
When I use disk cleanup utility, it doesn't find any temp files.
When I open %TEMP% folder, the files are really inside.
Is it normal to have that much temporary files in a computer?
If not, what can I do with them? Is it safe to clean them manually?
Thank You for Your answer!
Dominik
I don't believe disk cleanup will find or delete temp files that are less than a week old, you could wat a few days and try again. As to why ccleaner doesn't delete them I'm not sure, but you could add the folder to the custom files and folders box and see if that works. Click on Options then click on Include and add the folder, the next time you run ccleaner the files in that folder should be deleted. Use caution when choosing that option, because if you mess something up there is no way to undo it other than a system restore, so you should create a new restore point first.
Updated, it helped a bit. Got rid of 500 MB of temp files. The original state was 2,8 GB. CCleaner deleted some logs from installing XNA Game studio and Visual studio service pack update.
It also deleted one uninstall.exe app. Why was it there? Shouldn't it be in the installation folder of the program?
Further it deleted some NIS installer. I know that it's question for another forum. But is it OK to have it in %TEMP% folder? Especially when I have the install CD?
The logs still remain, event though the programs are not installed....
Maybe I'll have to put up with it. I simply have a lot of temp files from different programs.
Thank you for your help!
Dominik
It's difficult to generalize on temp files accumulating since it depends on how you use your computer, especially on the internet.
Have you checked that your CCleaner is fully uptodate -- v4.05.4250 (26 Aug 2013) is the mosst recent at the moment.
You can check Version Histories here: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/version-history
dominiksep wrote:Hi,
I am cleaning my computer regularly with CCleaner and I found out that each time it founds over 2 GB of temp files, but when I click clean it doesn't clean anything.
When I use disk cleanup utility, it doesn't find any temp files.
When I open %TEMP% folder, the files are really inside.
Is it normal to have that much temporary files in a computer?
If not, what can I do with them? Is it safe to clean them manually?
Thank You for Your answer!
Dominik
I don't believe disk cleanup will find or delete temp files that are less than a week old, you could wat a few days and try again. As to why ccleaner doesn't delete them I'm not sure, but you could add the folder to the custom files and folders box and see if that works. Click on Options then click on Include and add the folder, the next time you run ccleaner the files in that folder should be deleted. Use caution when choosing that option, because if you mess something up there is no way to undo it other than a system restore, so you should create a new restore point first.
Updated, it helped a bit. Got rid of 500 MB of temp files. The original state was 2,8 GB. CCleaner deleted some logs from installing XNA Game studio and Visual studio service pack update.
It also deleted one uninstall.exe app. Why was it there? Shouldn't it be in the installation folder of the program?
Further it deleted some NIS installer. I know that it's question for another forum. But is it OK to have it in %TEMP% folder? Especially when I have the install CD?
The logs still remain, event though the programs are not installed....
Maybe I'll have to put up with it. I simply have a lot of temp files from different programs.
Thank you for your help!
Dominik