![]() ![]() I have absolutely heard stories of registry cleaning resolving installation issues for certain software but part of me thinks they're recommended in those cases just because no one has taken the time to figure out the actual key that was the problem. Technically Microsoft recommends against running registry cleaners and they use a bunch of vague wording to essentially absolve themselves of any responsibility for helping if one potentially breaks something. The average office computer doesn't take half the crap my desktop does. I game and 3D model on it so I would notice if there were performance issues. I have never run anything besides the Disk Cleanup tool in Windows (done less than once every 6 months) along with uninstalling crap periodically using Add/Remove Programs and my computer runs just fine. I also install and uninstall crap constantly or move stuff from SSD to spinny or spinny to SSD. On my personal desktop I have all sorts of crap from games, to dev libraries, to creative software, to obscure codecs and drivers, to little utilities for this and that spread across three drives. Just that you probably don't need to be doing it. The most useless and largest temp files are things like the Windows Update temp files which the Windows native tool takes care of.ĭon't get me wrong, I am not saying it's going to hurt the machine. Most cache has a TTL as well so it will delete itself when it's no longer needed. Deleting cache means the next time you need it there will be a rebuild and it will be slower. That's also before we consider that temp files are frequently cache and that cache speeds things up. As long as windows still has room to write you could be at 99% full and perform just as well as 10% full. Not to mention, the general idea that "more stuff on the disk = slower computer" is dated and doesn't really apply to modern operating systems or modern disks. Even in a "disk almost full" situation deleting it all wouldn't recoup much. This laptop has ~1GB of total temp files right now which is less than a quarter of a percent of the whole disk space. In my opinion temp file cleanup generally falls into the unnecessary category.
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