[SOLVED] Disk cleanup - how often ?

[Popikaify]

Im a bit weird,i have a weird habit where i HAVE to keep pc ''clean'',so i use disk cleanup and also clear storage,%temp%,temp folders,do system maintenance and so on.But is this going to harm my pc in any way ?

 

[USAFRet]

The only 'harm' might be to an SSD. All this needless cleaning and deleting is just introducing extra, unnecessary, write cycles to the drive(s).

And, you're actually making your system slower.
Temp files exist so that the system does not have to go out to the web to retrieve something. It can get it from internal storage, that Temp folder, much much faster.

 

[Popikaify]

The only 'harm' might be to an SSD. All this needless cleaning and deleting is just introducing extra, unnecessary, write cycles to the drive(s).

And, you're actually making your system slower.
Temp files exist so that the system does not have to go out to the web to retrieve something. It can get it from internal storage, that Temp folder, much much faster.

so i should leave everything and never delete it again?

 

[USAFRet]

so i should leave everything and never delete it again?

I'm not saying "never".
Just not obsessively, all the time.

Windows does a pretty good job of cleaning itself up after a while.

And by "do system maintenance "...what do you mean, exactly?

 

[USAFRet]

For instance, my /Windows/Temp folder.

I just looked.
2,238 files, 387MB
OMG! Too many files!!!
387MB is about 0.01% of the 3.5TB drive space in my system.

Last time I manually cleaned it? Approximately never.

 

[Popikaify]

I'm not saying "never".
Just not obsessively, all the time.

Windows does a pretty good job of cleaning itself up after a while.

And by "do system maintenance "...what do you mean, exactly?

Control Panel>Security and maintenance>Maintenance tab.There is an option called ''Automatic maintenance'' which i do manually every day.

 

[USAFRet]

Control Panel>Security and maintenance>Maintenance tab.There is an option called ''Automatic maintenance'' which i do manually every day.

It does this all by itself.
No need to manually invoke it.