Disk drives are one of the most important elements that are part of our computer. This is where we store all the programs that we download and install in the operating system, as well as our files and folders . Therefore, it is advisable to maintain them and be careful with the space they have available.
We tell you all this because any problem related to the disks that we have installed on the PC can turn into a serious problem. It may be the case that for whatever reason these units are damaged, so we could lose everything saved here. Hence precisely the importance of backups that we have talked about so many times.
At the same time, another of the inconveniences that we can find in this same sense, is everything related to the available space. Because these units are not unlimited, far from it, so we must control the amount of content that we are storing in them. In fact, the operating system itself generates a series of its own files that we do not always download as necessary. This, for example, can be found in the popular storms that we will talk about below.
These are files that Windows 10 itself creates and that many users wonder if they should delete them, either manually or automatically. We precisely want to clarify this in these same lines.
Windows creates a folder where it stores the tempos
We must know that the Redmond system has a folder called Temp where it stores the temporary files of the system. Here, files are collected that some of the installed applications create. They generate these types of files to control the users. To give us an idea, Office programs create temporary so that we can retrieve documents in the future, for example.
The same happens when we are going to print something, so these files are used in many tasks. As we mentioned, these are stored in the same folder that over time can even occupy several gigabytes.
Delete unusable content to save space
But of course while those files can be useful while we use the programs that have created them, over time they become a drag. This means that little by little they are occupying more and more space on the disk drives , which is a problem. In the event that we never clean this Temp folder, it can sometimes occupy several gigabytes.
In fact, even the widely used Internet browsers in general, files of this type that over time are useless, they only take up space. At this point we can say that the best thing to do is delete the contents of this folder manually or even automate the process.
Delete temps automatically
At this point the best we can do is that the folder that we have mentioned is automatically deleted from time to time. To achieve this we have to open the Configuration application with the Win + I key combination and go to the System section. In the new window we look for the storage section where we click. Here we can activate the function called storage sensor that automatically frees space in Windows, including temporary ones .
In addition, if we click on the link that is located just below the selector, we can specify how often we want this automatic file cleaning to be carried out.