Author Topic: 89GB of temporary files? Holy bricks of stuff!  (Read 1973 times)

After juggling my computer that had ~3GB of space left on the HDD consistently, I decided to run Window's Disk Cleanup to see what it could do.

A few things I found in there I had some questions about:

89GB of Temporary files: Should I be concerned about this? I haven't cleaned these out in the 1/2 year I've had this computer but it seems anomalous to say the least. Is there some malicious software generating such a ludicrous amount of temporary files, or is this a relatively normal amount for not having cleaned it out in a while. Furthermore, is it safe to delete temporary files even if they're not malicious?

Restore points and shadow copies: Safe to delete?

Hibernation files: Windows tells me if I delete these it'll be impossible to hibernate y/n?

and there are a lot of other error logs and windows generated files that look like they're okay to delete. What do you guys think?

I clear mine every week, automatically with CCleaner. It's usially 4GB per week.

Also, you can clear everything in your temp folder, it's completely safe.

nothing is worth having less the 10 GB of HDD space.
delete it

nothing is worth having less the 10 GB of HDD space.
delete it
I have a bad HDD, it's like 260GB.

I have a bad HDD, it's like 260GB.
lol
260GB is bad?
I have 75 GB


Restore points are backups of registry and important system files and such, You can delete all of them apart from the latest one (it makes a new one pretty much every time you install or uninstall something)

Restore points are backups of registry and important system files and such, You can delete all of them apart from the latest one (it makes a new one pretty much every time you install or uninstall something)
Windows is smart like that. It says "deletes everything except your most recent restore point".

Good OS *pat pat*.



Do disk cleanup.

Does it do anything to your computer?

I dont want it deleting random files that i will end up needing

Does it do anything to your computer?

I dont want it deleting random files that i will end up needing
Windows is pretty smart about stuff like that.


You should really really consider a new harddrive. :o I've got 250 gigs but this is a laptop for producing music, so I don't really need the harddrive space. :P