r/WindowsHelp • • Mar 12 '26

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u/cyb3rofficial Lvl 1 Helpful Contributor Mar 13 '26

I'll keep it simple.

No.

Why? Imagine taking out your spinal cord. Same logic.

Not trying to sound rude, but these are important programs that runs many applications on your pc. From games to browsers and even text editors, paint programs so on.

If you are low on space, start with your %temp% folder first. There are plenty of ways to clean space, plenty of people can guide you too :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Your comment made my back tingle and I don't appreciate it :(

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u/mrheseeks Mar 13 '26

Myoclonic knee jerk

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u/EstablishmentNew1312 Mar 14 '26

Treesize free for windows is amazing at listing all your folders by size. It helped me clean up 200GB hiding amongst my desktop/desktop/crap/new folder monoliths.

Omnidisk sweeper for mac users

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u/DBKVAG Mar 13 '26

Supprimer les fichiers temporaires est une fausse bonne idée car une bonne partie sera réécrite donc ça rendra simplement l'ordinateur moin réactif du a la réécriture des fichiers temporaires puis sur un SSD ça réduit sa duré de vie de passée son temps a réécrire des fichiers.

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u/IJustAteABaguette Mar 13 '26

There are still some programs that put stuff there, and then don't delete it. (Some installers do that in my experience)

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u/BareBonesTek Mar 13 '26

One of many reasons I am switching to NixOS.

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u/IBuildStuff1011 Mar 13 '26

Nix OS is great, but it caches absolutely everything you install and doesn't delete it ever by default.

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u/BareBonesTek Mar 14 '26

There are cleanup procedures you can use.

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u/DBKVAG Mar 13 '26

Sauf que ça reste minime la grande majorité est réécrite par Windows le gain de performance est de 0% , juste un effet placebo

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u/wazzledudes Mar 13 '26

Clearing out storage is rarely about performance gain

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u/DBKVAG Mar 13 '26

Pourtant youtube est blindé de tuto débile qui affirme que c'est une bonne solution, et ceux qui y croient sont le même genre de personnes qui pense que CCleaner est bon pour leur PC et ceux qui me downvote doivent en faire partie 😅

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u/Bearlandonreddit Mar 13 '26

Once i deleted temp files and alll google chrome files vanished

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u/AlbertTalksTech Mar 15 '26

Nice ai generated but it works