Q: I’m trying to download some not-very-large files from the Web and I get a message saying that either the drive where I’m trying to store the files or the place where temporary files are stored is ...

Temporary files can overstay their welcome and end up lining the stores of your hard drive as junk files. Temporary files range from installation elements left by long deleted programs to system files ...

Unlike PCs, which require manual maintenance to clear temporary file caches, the Mac's UNIX-based operating system is designed to automatically run maintenance and clear temporary files. Emergency ...

Junk files are files that remain on your computer after a task has been performed. Sometimes, Windows or some program needs to create temporary files while doing some task and then forgets to delete ...

In a user's computer, temporary Internet files are a collection of the most recent pages and files downloaded from the Web. The files are stored in a folder that acts as a cache so that subsequent ...

Windows creates temporary files in the background to keep everything running smoothly. But over time, these hidden files quietly pile up in system folders, slowly eating away at space you could use ...

The hard drive on my wife’s computer is almost full, even though she uses it mostly for email. While looking for things to delete, I noticed that the WindowsTemp folder contains 180 gigabytes of data.