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- Artem S. Tashkinov
It goes without saying that %TEMP% and C:\Windows\Temp should be regularly cleaned up if you care about your disk space but over the last couple of years I've discovered a lot more locations where Windows 10 (and probably 11, don't have, don't want it yet) store junk which is not worth keeping and should be purged with prejudice.
Filesystem/registry junk in Windows 10/11.
Extra locations are welcome. I've not included e.g. Windows Explorer's thumbnails database because it gets recreated anyways [ %AppData%/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer ].
The fact that Windows have numerous absolutely random locations on the disk to store temporary files is quite upsetting but it's what it is.
Filesystem/registry junk in Windows 10/11.
Extra locations are welcome. I've not included e.g. Windows Explorer's thumbnails database because it gets recreated anyways [ %AppData%/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer ].
The fact that Windows have numerous absolutely random locations on the disk to store temporary files is quite upsetting but it's what it is.