How to Delete Temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 Automatically and Manually

How to delete Temp Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 [Automatically & Manually]

Method #1 [Manually]

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 using Disk Cleanup tool

• Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
• Launch Disk Cleanup tool

Simple Method:

• Search Disk Cleanup in Windows Search box and Launch the app and Follow below instructions shown in below image.

Method #2

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 from going into Start Menu Settings

• Go to Settings---System---Storage---This PC---Temporary files---tickmark on Temporary files---Remove files.

Method #3 

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 using Command Prompt

• Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32  (or) Search cmd in Start menu
• Right click on cmd  (Run as Administrator)
• Type: del /f /s /q %temp%

Method #4

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 Using %temp%

• Go to Search menu and type %temp%

OR

• C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp

• System Temporary Files 
• Go to C:\Windows\Temp
• Control+A  Delete 

Delete Temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 Automatically

Method #1

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 using Storage Sense

• Go to Settings---System---Storage---Turn on Storage Sense 

Method #2

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 using Script code

• Go to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
• Create new Text Document and write 

rd %temp% /s /q

md %temp%

• Save as deletetempfiles.bat 
• .bat file format
• Every time your PC restarts batch file will clean your temp files
  

Method #3

Delete temporary Files and Unnecessary System Files in Windows 10 using Script Code + Group Policy

Create new Text Document and write

@ECHO off 
DEL /F /S /Q %TEMP%

• Save as cleanTemp.cmd file format in Desktop
• Copy cleanTemp.cmd to C:\WINDOWS\System32\GroupPolicy\User\Scripts\Logon
• Go to Edit Group Policy
• Open Run Command ( Win+r )  type as gpedit.msc

Go to User Config---Windows Settings---Scripts (Logon/Logoff)

• Go to Logon Proprieties
• Add Script Parameters

schtasks /create /tn "Clean Temp Files" /tr c:\path\to\script\cleanTemp.cmd /sc onlogon

• Browse Script Name file location as 
• C:\WINDOWS\System32\GroupPolicy\User\Scripts\Logon

• Every time your PC restarts batch file will clean your temp files