Note: make sure you’re not running anything when deleting temporary files manually. (The automatic methods will wait for files to reach a certain age – one week, usually – before deleting them.) Manually removing temporary files in Windows gives the most immediate results to clean up the C drive and regain space.īelow, we show you some tricks that clean out your various temporary files automatically, but those methods (like Storage Sense and Disk Clean-up) won’t do a complete job of clearing out temporary files, and there’s a good chance that the biggest, most hard-drive-hogging temporary files will remain in your Temp folder for a bit longer. Here we show you how to clean up your C drive in Windows, recover some space, and subsequently get it running again.Īlso read: 6 Ways to Check Hard Disk Health in Windows 1. Inevitably, this is also the drive that gets filled up most easily due to endless Windows updates, temporary files of applications, downloaded files that you forget about, and the fact that by default, everything saves to the “C” drive. If you're satisfied with your last two drivers, one for a roll back if an issue arises, the most current for an in place repair.ĭelete all the rest, you can always download previous versions over at AMD if you want to go back further.The all-important “C” drive is, for most people, the core of the PC, where the operating system is installed and all the crucial system files are kept. Sometimes, windows actually rolls back to what it thinks is the stable driver during an update, even though the latest driver is probably more stable than the one AMD published as the latest stable to Microsoft. Keeping this relatively smaller is important, not only for drive volume, I'm surprised AMD doesn't do a cleanup when there are too many previous versions. The driver's remain so you can roll yours back, or do a repair. Mine was around 30 gigs, found it trying to figure out why the SSD was overpopulated compared to my own calculation. If you update often, ( AMD publishes frequent driver upgrades), the folder can get huge, if you have a smaller SSD, or even one of admirable size, this folder takes up too much space, affecting wear leveling and trim. This folder's there to unpack driver updates, (catalyst I believe).
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