Clear Cache and delete temporary files in windows 10

Windows 10, stores significant amounts of cache to make the system faster and more responsive compared to previous versions, this indeed is very efficient if you have tons of Free storage and free ram to work with, or a high-performance CPU. Unless you have a considerable amount of free memory, you will eventually run into problems that will slow down your Pc, cause it to lag and maybe even hang if you load it with a lot of tasks.

Clean cache Files In windows 

We can open Run command using ⊞ + R  (Winkey + R) or search Run in Cortana.

1. %temp%

Step 1:- Open Run Command

Step 2:- Write  %temp%  in it, and hit enter

It will open temp file from AppData>Local 

Step 3:- Select All ( using  Ctrl + A  ) and Delete permanently (Using  Shift + Delete ).

2.Temp

Step 1:- Open Run Command

Step 2:- Write  temp  in it, and hit enter

It will open Temp file from Windows. This temp file is different from the previous temp file.

Step 3:- Select All ( using  Ctrl + A  ) and Delete permanently (Using  Shift + Delete ).

3.Prefetch

Step 1:- Open Run Command

Step 2:- Write  prefetch  in it, and hit enter

It will Open prefetch file from Windows.

Step 3:- Select All ( using  Ctrl + A  ) and Delete permanently (Using  Shift + Delete ).

4.Tree

Step 1:- Open Run Command

Step 2:- Write  tree  in it, and hit enter

This works very fast ( Less than one second). It has only two steps.

Disk cleanup and optimize

Step 1:- Open Run Command

Step 2:- Write  cleanmgr  in it, and hit enter

It will clean up All Drive. By default, it takes C Drives. Generally, we don't clean up Other drives like E and F Drives, because Temporary files generally stored within C Drive.

Step 3:- Choose C Drive and click OK.

Now It will calculate that how much space will be able to free from this Drive.

 Step 4:- Choose which files you want to delete, and Click on OK. 

If you don't want to select or deselect then just Click on OK. One thing note here, if you also choose Recycle Bin to clean up then everything within Recycle Bin will be deleted. (Recycle Bin becomes Empty).

We can clean up more using Clean up System files. It will take more time than cleaning C Drive. Using Clean up System Files we can delete previously windows updates, Now which is useless for the system.

Now optimize the drives.

Step 1:- Open Run Command

Step 2:- Write  dfrgui  in it, and hit enter 

Step 3:- Click on Optimize.

Here also we can choose Drive but generally, we optimize C drive only. Other drivers don't need to optimize and it takes very less time.

Delete Temporary files from storage

Step 1:- Open Windows Settings.

step 2:- Open System Settings.

step 3:- Open storage setting.

step 4:- Click on free up space now.

First, it will calculate how much space is available to be free.

step 5:- Choose files and remove them.

step 6:- After Removing Files Go back.

step 7:- Now click on change how we free up space automatically.

step 8:- Now click on clean now.