09/20/2017
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Here's the helpful info:
Is your computer slow? It was fast, but has slowed down a lot.
Many times, this is due to too many items in the temp directory.
Imagine you're at work, and you have a little note book. Through out your day you jot down, notes, ideas, information, things you need for tasks you're performing. If you don't erase things, after couple days, you're going to have a lot of pages of information to flip through to find what you're looking for and it slows you down. A computer can have the same problem. It stores it's little notes in the temp directory. It's supposed to clean itself out at reboot, but crashes happen, programs are written that don't remove their data, programs freeze, and eventually, if you don't manually remove them, there are thousands of files in the temp directory. Making your computer sloooooow waaaay down. So here's the fix:
Fix:
Windows 10: Right click on the start menu, and select run. a little box will appear that says "Open:" to the right of open, in the text box, type "%temp%". (with out the quotes.)
Windows 7: Left click on the start menu. In the start menu that appears, there will be a text box at the bottom. in the text box type "%temp%" (with out the quotes.)
If you only have 2 options when you right click on the start menu, you have windows 7.
This will open an explorer window with a few to a bunch of files. Either click "select all" in the menu at the top of the window or right click and choose "select all"
Press your delete key.
You will get some error messages. As some of the files are needed by currently open programs. Just check the checkbox that says "do this for all items" and click "skip". It will leave any files it actually needs. You should be left with 5-15 items, depending on what applications you have open at the time.
Then voila! You're computer is faster!! This should be done either once a month or once a week, depending on how heavily the computer is used. This fix will work on your home computer or work computer, and as long as you are in the temp directory, You don't have to worry about deleting anything important, because the computer won't let you delete anything important.
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