Remove Junk Files to Cleanup Your Windows 10 Computer

Remove Junk Files to Cleanup Your Windows 10 Computer

Firstly, let’s delete the Windows update data. To do that, open C drive, then Windows, then Software Distribution and here choose Download. We have around 1 gig of Windows update data and we don’t need it. If the system needs any file, it will be downloaded again. So no issues. Let me delete everything here in this downloads folder to remove junk files to cleanup the Windows 10 computer.

So now the second one. Let’s delete the temporary & prefetch files. To do that, open Run by right-clicking on the #Windows icon and here choose ‘Run’. In here type %temp% and choose ok. Now you will see all the temporary files and delete them all by saving any of the work that you are currently doing with any of the applications.

Again open Run by right-clicking on the Windows icon and now just type temp. This is another location where the temp files are stored. Just, delete them all to clean up the temp location.

Now we’re going to delete the prefetch files. To do that, open Run dialogue box by typing Windows + R keys together and type prefetch. Select all the files and folders here then proceed to delete them.

This is how you remove junk files to clean up your #Windows10 computer.

Now, the third one. If you have any issues with the Windows store then just do this thing without changing account settings or deleting installed apps.

By opening the Run dialogue box, type wsreset and hit ok. Now you will see the command prompt with a blank screen. You need to wait for a few seconds to complete the reset process. Once done, you will get the Windows store on the console.

The fourth one is clearing the browsing history of #Microsoft edge and chrome as I have them. You can try clearing the browsing history of all the browsers that you have.

So, now going with Edge browser, Open it and choose these three dots right here and choose settings. Now at the center, click on ‘Choose what to clear’ under ‘clear browsing data’. Tick what you want to delete and choose ‘clear’. Alternatively, you can opt to ‘Always clear this when I close the browser’ option if you wish to clear browsing data regularly to remove junk files to cleanup your windows 10 computer.

If you are using #Chrome browser, do these steps to delete the browsing history. Open chrome and choose these three dots to expand the available options. From the menu, choose ‘More Tools’ then ‘Clear browsing data’. You will get a window with basic options. Navigate to the ‘Advanced’ tab and choose the time range, what things you would like to clear etc and click on ‘clear data’. That’s it.

The fifth one is to clear the DNS cache. If you have any internet connectivity issues you can run this command to flush the DNS cache. To do that, search for cmd and right click on it to run the command prompt as an administrator. Now here type the following command.

ipconfig/flushdns and it will instantly clear the DNS cache for you.

The sixth one is to clean up the disk. To do this search for Disk cleanup and open it. Choose the disk you would like to clean up and here I’m choosing the C drive. Now choose the files that you would like to clean up and select ok. It will then clean up the junk files that are in C drive.

The seventh one is to free up the space using a restore point. To do that, search for restore point and then open it. Once you have the system restore point window, choose the C drive and choose ‘configure’ to look for the space that was occupied at restore point. Now I have around 2 gigs here and you just need to delete it by choosing delete and press ok. Now create a new restore point and name it as you like. I’m here naming it as restore and it will take less space now.

This is how you can remove cache or junk files to cleanup your Windows 10 computer manually without using any software.

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[asnarkyname.]

I only have 64gb on my laptop and 8gb was in software distribution! Waited a week to comment here, to make sure it worked fine, and it works perfectly

[aimisaki.]

Thanks dude. Not only did you helped me clean up a lot of junk files, but I managed to turn on my system protection again (in the restore thingy). Thanks a lot!

[Utrinity]

You’re a live saver! Thank you for creating an easy to follow video, that gets straight to the point.

[TheMaumonta]

best ever technical explanation in a long time, thanks for getting my PC back from the dead

[johnyboy_tv]

this the only person with an accent like that, that ever helped me. All the other ones always trying to scam me over the phone smfh! Thank you brother.

[tigerbutterfly]

Well, Sometimes you just can't trust everyone or everything you come across on the internet.. But I decided to go through with this tutorial and I'm glad I did.. I have a tb of space and is using about half and my computer was at a trot but now I can say it's galloping again like the work horse it use to be. Thank you for this very informative and useful information.. Kudos to you.

[thekashyf]

That's epic, I clean 6GB of space. Thanks man for the help, clearing the junks.

[bharathb]

thanks bro the last suggestion of restore point worked well for me as it had occupied around 90GB... Great work keep going..

[MarsBeats]

Thank you, very informative and straight to the point

[bustymcnutters]

This still works in 2023. Thank you dude! In no realm is there ever a good reason for an OS to be hanging onto 30 GB of freaking temp data.

[cyrex]

Thanks a lot man! This is the only tutorial that helped me out.

[Account-wqll]

Really helped clean my computer I kept getting pop up ads from apps I had already uninstalled but thanks this cleared it up

[milkyway]

Thanks mate ! You just save my life ! Really appreciate it

[sunshineroyalty]

It’s 2 am and im over here following step by step grateful too because I wasn’t paying a bunch of money on something i can do myself

[proxy]

i was kind of skeptical at first, but i just went with it. thanks a lot this works very well. now i have more space for more steam games : )

[HghIQ]

Mate im thankful for uploading this video 🙏I have a laptop with 1tera and I started getting low frames on games but with ur help I just cleaned 76g and I got that and more fps back tysm

[abhishekthakur-usuu]

Thank you brother, i have watched another videos too people are saying download this aap, do that setting change, uncheck this box, stop background running program and all kinds of bogus thing...but you sir you have told me exactly what I was looking for .thank you

[hashiahmed]

Thank you man this man deserves more subs

[sodiumman]

Thank You So Much! I cleared 6-7 GB Space on my C: Drive by following your tips :)

[jacobpallapally]

Thanks alot bro. THIS tutorial helped me alot. 😁