Delete these garbage Windows files!

[@Culdcepter]

It amazes me how my mind forgets so many of these things, but finding videos like yours reminds me what I keep forgetting day in and out. Thank you much.

[@LironSegev]

I'm so glad!

[@casaraku1]

Its great that Liron does not assume that people know about restore or backup options and actually shows it at the beginning when mucking about the OS.

[@keithtanner2806]

What a relief to have straightforward, to the point instructions without senseless guff. 😃

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here

[@dboify1234]

@@LironSegev hey man the spotify one was so so so helpful thank you so much

[@abdallatech7230]

@@LironSegev umm is it must teacher?

[@AnthonyManzio]

​@@LironSegev I can't delete windows.old?

[@TheMerkilan]

I am saving this video to follow these steps again on a monthly basis (at least.) Disk cleanup freed 10GB from my hard drive! I kept pausing to follow your directions through the video because you were moving along quickly, but I appreciate you not dragging directions out to make the video longer. We have the pause and rewind ability at our fingertips afterall. :)

[@LironSegev]

😂 Finally someone who gets it

[@johntorhovtor5244]

@@LironSegev i dont see any spotify folder there in local i see SquirrelTemp but not spotify

[@billss19]

*Very* thorough explanations and an incredible compilation of extremely useful suggestions . . . you`re the best. I`ve been using iolo System Mechanic Pro for several years and their primary downside is *constant* attempts at up-selling.

[@LironSegev]

Glad it was helpful!

[@iolotechnologies]

Thank you for your feedback. You CAN turn off notifications by clicking on Settings (the gear icon) and checking or unchecking which notifications/alerts you’d like to see. This includes task notifications, updates, hints and tips, and desktop messaging. In addition to the notification preference for desktop communication, every email has an opt out link, which is strictly observed.

[@MasterArmedforces]

@@LironSegev Hey Liron, this comment is regarding your MTU settings vid from about a year ago but Ive found that KZbinrs get better notifications on their newer content so Im commenting here instead: After following your directions, I determined I should be at 1495. So I jumped ahead one step & checked what the current setting was. It was set at 1500, so that was too big. How did that number get originally setup incorrectly, by the router maybe? SO, I tried to set it to 1495 w/the word WiFi within the parenthesis' as you showed. It told me the syntax was wrong. After 4-5 tries I typed in Wireless Network Connection instead and it processed further than it previously had telling me the parameters, but that the syntax was still incorrect. Bummer. I sent you an email with the screenshot. I appreciate your time. Thanks!

[@makeminefreedom]

I purchased a copy of System Mechanic years ago and it maxed out my processor so I had to delete it. The version I had ran constantly in the background and my CPU fan was running constantly. When I deleted it my computer returned to normal. I don't know if the developers have addressed this issue but it made me so angry I never wanted to try it again.

[@billss19]

@@iolotechnologies That has *NOT* been my experience . . . by the way, you sold out to norton . . . *lol*

[@Chiresia]

I think this is singlehandedly the most useful video on the internet.

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@gen5773]

Liron! Thanks! I've cleaned up my computer this morning with your brilliant no-nonsense directions - Fab!

[@FortworthYT]

Thank you so much! I had trouble updating and uninstalling a certain game, yet my storage wasn't increasing until I have found out that the big sized patches and miscellaneous were actually in Temp. Once again, you have my thanks. Subbed

[@phillstarrfamily1st124]

Thank you so much, for not making this complicated and getting right to the point on everything. Hats off to you my guy 🙏🏽🏆

[@LironSegev]

App you being here!

[@stargazer7184]

@@LironSegev How do you gain access to the Prefetch file if it won;t let you see it?

[@kraken_up6416]

@@stargazer7184 If you hover your pointer over the folder, it'll tell you it's empty. I can only access my Prefetch folder occasionally.

[@kaminobatto]

Thank you so much for this! I just claimed back almost 9 GB of my HD space! I'm hoping my SSD will now perform again like one!

[@LironSegev]

Glad it helped!

[@wittwittwer1043]

You can save time scrolling through a lot of files by doing this: If the file you are looking for begins with "s" press the keyboard "s" key and it will take you to all the files beginning with that letter. Then scroll down to the specific file and press "enter" to open it.

[@keithbrown7685]

but if you're fast enough at typing, and you know some of the letters beyond s, like, say, sillystrings.txt....... if you can type si or sil or sill fast enough, you'll get to *the* file you're looking for.

[@TheEvolvingAudioNut]

I bought and tried System Mechanic. It seemed to work well enough, but I have removed it from my system due to constant pop-ups trying to get me to upgrade and constant spam mail from them also trying to get me to give them more money. I guess I should have expected as much. Save yourself some money and aggravation and pass on this great offer.

[@iolotechnologies]

Thank you for your feedback. You CAN turn off notifications by clicking on Settings (the gear icon) and checking or unchecking which notifications/alerts you’d like to see. This includes task notifications, updates, hints and tips, and desktop messaging. In addition to the notification preference for desktop communication, every email has an opt out link, which is strictly observed.

[@PiltdownSuperman]

Yes, those temp files are used by programs, but as I like to say, sometimes they forget to pick up their toys when they're done. Then we need to do what you're describing.

[@LironSegev]

haha good way of putting it. Also some developers are just really bad at coding so they leave a mess everywhere 😂

[@Biglover29]

@@LironSegev Can't you do the same thing through the disc cleaner program?

[@CesarPeron]

@@Biglover29 Cleanmgr+ is your answer

[@GReaper]

Disk Cleanup does much of this automatically when you run it... It does leave a few things behind, but it is much better for people not sure about doing this stuff, or don't want to install third party stuff.

[@danoconnell1833]

If you don't have Liron's level of computer literacy, I highly recommend doing a *full image backup* in addition to setting a system restore point before starting this. It takes longer, but can fix almost anything that can go wrong. There's no guarantee that system restore will work in every situation.

[@danoconnell1833]

@Sahil Bhandari My experience (20+ years) with system restore shows it to be unreliable, even in simple situations. To the point where I don't use it at all any more. Better to be safe.

[@paulwarner5395]

I do a full system image backup every week just in case ..

[@danoconnell1833]

@@paulwarner5395 Excellent idea!

[@tr4l1975]

@Sahil Bhandari Quoted from another commenter "Your advice is going to be helpful to most people, but it completely wrecks things for anybody using XBox Game Pass on PC in such a way that System Restore cannot help." Image backups are great for when restore points won't fix problems.

[@NotRowsdower]

Wish I'd read this comment before I tried Liron's suggestions. I set a system restore beforehand, tried his suggestions and stuff started crashing. went for the restore and most of my apps,all of my saved bookmarks and passwords are now gone. Took me ages to just get my external bluetooth dongle to work again. I started working on this over 8 hours ago.... still not completely back to normal

[@jeremybenisrael]

Liron, I came upon your YT channel and am very glad I did. Your tips are amazing and so fast and easy to implement. My PC and laptops are running much smoother now. Thank you!

[@LironSegev]

Welcome aboard!

[@peterschmidt9942]

I don't mind watching these sorts of videos occasionally as I generally forget to do a lot of this so it's a great reminder to do so LOL.

[@LironSegev]

I'm so glad!

[@kamolhengkiatisak1527]

I allocate 1gb as ramdisk and change cache/temp variable to Z:\ ramdisk. Once shut down, all cache/temp files are automatically deleted. Furthermore, it saves SSD life a little as all these files are not written on SSD and it also makes browser run faster when it needs to access cache files.

[@Maolana_ModiG]

I did also using primocache.

[@Harzurner]

I do this all the time especially after a drink on the work work laptops

[@ralphcardinal2688]

Thanks for mostly great advice. I did have an issue with trying to purchase System Mechanic, they insisted that I upgrade and pay a monthly fee. My understanding was that initially there was a one time charge but the salesperson would not relent so I was forced to be abrupt and hang-up I uninstalled the program and will cancel the credit card payment. This is not an indictment of the product just the sales/tech person.

[@LironSegev]

Wtf WI ask them

[@hwdrlkh]

He can't help, he just got sponsored.

[@iolotechnologies]

We are sorry to hear about your negative experience with our contact center. The representative's response is not accurate, and more so, their behavior is in clear violation of our policies. We have shared your feedback with our Customer Service Manager. To clarify, the software is an annual license and there is no requirement to upgrade and there is not a monthly fee.

[@muriuwangai3617]

Hi Liron, am thankful for your assisting us with much knowledge on computers. You should know that you have much following in Kenya..

[@64mustangfan]

Incredibly relevant! Thanks Liron. Cleaning up restore points was a massive gain in space. Saving this vid for sure 🙂

[@danielstrm5940]

You sir just got a new sub! Love your vids!

[@mfb6310]

Excellent! First thing I did was empty the trash, then I did everything you suggested with you right there guiding me along. And must now empty it AGAIN with over 25,000 things in it. Wow - Thank You!

[@carlvaz]

I found this video very useful! I could right away see a marked improvement in the PC start-up time. Thank you!

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@naturallyherb]

Thanks for such a thorough explanation! I was going through the situation where running cleanmgr.exe didn't clear out all temporary files. So I searched and was able to come up with deleting the temp, %temp%, software distribution files, and prefetch files, before I discovered your channel, which helped even more!

[@chipcobb3779]

This was excellent. It covered much more than I expected.

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@BasicMike]

There's one more thing you can do to speed up your computer. Every browser, and most large programs, like Microsoft Office, use a software program to update the application, keeping it fresh and exciting. However, many updating programs run every hour of every day, regardless of whether there is an update. The programs are started by the Window scheduler. Simply and meticulously go through every entry looking for these hourly cycle hogs and change the setting to a once-a-day trigger. The browsers and large programs will still update to the latest version, but without interfering with your TV time, games, or actual work.

[@seepassthebs]

Can u tell me how to do it?

[@ZyklonBeast12]

Okay how? Lol

[@decal2756]

He just wants to tell you ABOUT it without actually telling you HOW to do it!

[@kermitinmountain6371]

I thought I knew how to reduce those unwanted files and craps that Microsoft been giving us, I came across and found your video easy to use without any complicated. Microsoft has been and always will give us craps that use up our hard drive. Thank you Liron for your best. You made my day Sir! Thank you!

[@christophersmith5223]

My Fav IT Guy Always straight to the know with no dilly dally :)

[@kt.hartigan]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I got 30GB back! So clear, straight forward, uncomplicated. Brilliant!😘

[@LironSegev]

Let's goooo 🔥

[@abdurahmanmohammed6077]

thanks with the help of your video I was able to delete more that 4 GB of useless data on my pc

[@johntowle]

However, there was one area that didn't see a performance boost: internet speed. Iolo claims that System Mechanic can speed up your PC's internet connection via its NetBooster feature, but I didn't see a significant improvement that couldn't be explained by normal fluctuations when I ran Speedtest by Ookla.

[@dchubworldsharenetwork]

That's just what it's called sometimes. If you ordered 100/100 internet speed from your ISP operator, you will have that speed and programs cannot change that speed. Internet speed is set for your location / username by your ISP Operator and has nothing to do with your computer or devices. Programs can change how the webpage opens, how the browser will use the Internet connection, ping optimization etc. If you ordered Internet Speed​​​​​​ 100/100 and the Speed ​​​​​​Test shows only 90/80, yes, it is possible that such optimizations can help. When the Internet is not in use! Of course Speed ​​Test is done like this. 1) Turn off all devices from the modem (Wi-Fi and Cables) When all devices are turned off... 2) Turn off the modem for at least 30 seconds ( power supply from the wall ). A) Also restart your computer 3) Wait for the computer to boot into the OS and the modem to establish an Internet connection ( Lights on the modem ). 4) Now connect the computer and the modem with a cable. !Do not connect other devices! 5) Once your computer is connected to the Internet, open the Speed ​​​​​​Test website and select your ISP Operator for the speed test. Speedtest by Ookla will definitely have your ISP listed. This is the best internet speed test website as server distance is very important for accurate measurement. If the internet speed is not the same as the one you ordered or almost the same, do the same test later or next day and if the difference is still very large, call your ISP operator. You can try speed test on another computer to be sure. A cable connection is required for accurate measurement. If you cannot change the server, the internet speed test website is useless because the measurement will not be accurate.

[@LordProteus]

I've been using System Mechanic since 2008. I miss some of the older versions, especially the 2008 one. I especially miss the "gadgets" that Windows used to have and the SM gadget the software installed along with it, so you could see your system status at all times.

[@BimalB]

for cleaning up all disks of junk, use the below steps 1. Open the Administrative command line 2. type "cmd.exe /c cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & cleanmgr /sagerun:65535" without quotes 3. select all the items in the dialog that popsup 4. press enter

[@mmahouyou]

How to delete your whole system: Do not try this. This will effect your system, use modified versions of windows instead

[@skl5838]

From your first video I find your subjects so interesting and useful and educational. I immediately subscribed. More power to you

[@WalterKnox]

if you are worried about junk files, but have Windows 10 or 11, you need to just delete the whole entire operating system and install something else. Anything after windows 10 is a garbage file in itself.

[@jorichie601]

A First Class tutorial as ever ! Many thansk Liron.

[@LironSegev]

My pleasure!

[@Watchmuhs6x]

Love this guy, always 100 percent trust his knowledge and always gets me through these situations smoothly. Thanks a million!

[@LironSegev]

Really appreciate you being here 🔥

[@siccmike84]

Great video! 🔥 love the knowledge bomb 💣! How often should you do these steps to clean up the files in the PC?

[@LironSegev]

thanks for being here! I do these once a week or when my computer is "acting up"

[@siccmike84]

@@LironSegev I have two hard drives should I be creating a restore point for my Local Disk Drive (C) and (D).

[@robertheintz8017]

@@LironSegev Why do you do these once a week if you have System Mechanic?

[@MervynPartin]

I have a Asus Windows laptop with 32GB memory. It seemed plenty when I bought it several years ago, but the useable memory has been gradually used up so that even an update is precarious. Thanks to your helpful video, I have gained a useful amount of memory back.

[@AgentSkitz]

For someone like me who knows nothing about computers, Thank you so much I have learnt so much I didn’t know. You are a star

[@favloeskobar1826]

new subscriber here thank you sir, your tutorial tips is clear and informative godbless you

[@Krissie-Colton]

This is amazing, thanks so much I got back 13G of space on my hard drive and learnt something never because i've never knowm how to improve the performance. I will say the disck clean up too ages so I knew it must have needed it

[@jhawk3547]

Awesome post Liron! 2 or 3 I didn't know about. Thank you mate!

[@LironSegev]

No problem 👍

[@hi_suggestnamepls903]

tysm for this vid! I've been trying to delete some unwanted junks in my laptop, and the softwaredistribution and downloads just gave me a lot of storage when i deleted it! tysm!!

[@thomasgoshaw6406]

%Appdata% opens explorer to the roaming folder where you have to backtrack to get to local. %Localappdata% saves those couple of steps.

[@metalfabman5477]

excellent tutorial, thanks so much, will be doing this to all 3 of my pc's. just excellent!!

[@davidviner5783]

Very comprehe,nsive. Norton regularly tells me I have gb of files slowing me down. I use advice like yours to try and delete them. Next month I get another similar message from Norton!!!

[@mikem1851]

Great tips. You showed a lot of manual cleanup. Will System Mechanic do all of what you manually showed us here?

[@PSMbayan]

this guy is on another level about technology

[@alanschwartz1157]

I wish I could get a written copy of everything you just said. I had to run and rerun everything a couple of times. If I had a hard copy, I could proceed at my own pace. Sometimes my brain runs slower than my computer.

[@Tiger6Lilly]

Hi Alan. I'm using my phone and if I expand the description of the video and scroll down I can access the transcript of the video. I'm not sure about printing it but you could always copy and paste it into a word document.

[@jim2611]

I love you no-nonsense videos - it will be great if you can do a video on onedrive management - my onedrive keeps getting stuck one preparing to upload - I've resetting and other tips to no avail - cheers from Sydney, Australia 🙂

[@KevinSweden-jz69420ki]

It made me free up some space! The prefetch Windows files is the unused files.

[@RW_CreativeMedia]

If your computer is not meant to work 24/7 as a server, your HD computer will colapse in half the time you should be using it, so yes, you should restart it and then shut it down

[@KUOLEMA_]

Every PC i had I never turned off. The last time I turned off my PC was about 2 years ago ( besides restarting when needed ) and everything is copacetic.IT'S better NOT to ever turn off your PC.

[@skumar01_]

Superb info. Thank you very much

[@rfburns5601]

Yes I deleted all those garbage windows files and went to linux ages ago. Got tired of playing whack-a-mole with windows update and debloat scripts. I understand some folks are stuck with windows; you have my condolences.

[@LironSegev]

When I switched to Linux it came with its own set of issues too. Nothing is perfect for everyone all the time.

[@Merijn890]

You're an absolute legend, helped me out a lot with your easy to follow video.

[@rakeshs3761]

Awesome channel, learned a lot of super useful things

[@LironSegev]

Glad to help!

[@JonesCrimson]

"YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THIS FOLDER" ***I OWN YOU!***

[@jakeaustin2379]

You are correct my friend . . . This is scaring the hell out of me to attempt this.

[@rectify2003]

Thanks Liron

[@Dumont1964]

Excellent video, thanks. One remark though: Cleandisk did not scan and delete my previous windows folder (windows.old). Any thoughts on that?

[@runemesa]

Wow! Thanks for all of the info. I didn't need to use the spotify one since I've never used that program (or whatever it is). The very last one about clearing browsing data I couldn't do because I never use Chrome. I know you said all of the browser are the same with this menu, but I use Firefox and there was no "Clear browsing data" option in the "more tools" section. Everything thing else worked though. Thanks loads. :)

[@darkspongebob11]

an easier way to get to appdata local folder you dont have to go out of the roaming and into local instead type in %localappdata% and it takes you stright there

[@LironSegev]

yup! thanks for that 👍

[@SpaceWizardCosplay]

Very helpful. Thank you for explaining everything quickly and efficiently. Bootup time after restart is less than 8 seconds. ;)

[@signal404]

Awesome video! I liked Here to mentioned, it made me smile to hear about Spotify (Not everyone uses that services)

[@misty_ravy]

Very Nice Sir. Its like cleaning my house but virtual

[@HotGates]

Great video I'll look into system mechanics but what about Glary Utility? Also is system mechanics buy in full or is it year to year?

[@qormi1000]

Excellent tips. Thank you so much. Your explanations are easy to follow.

[@repairman2be250]

Hardly ever did I have any luck restore windows from a restore point.

[@michaeludeze8470]

Disk Cleanup makes computer run faster. However, you must run it as Administrator. The Option to run it as Administrator shows up on the right sight when you type disk clean up. You can also right-click, and choose - run as Administrator. If you don't run as Administrator. it will not remove old Device Drivers that are slowing your system down.

[@Mu7eD-Stream]

I'm only 30 seconds into a video for saving space and the first piece of advice is to recreate a system restore point (effectively a copy of your windows installation directory) which are notorious for consuming drive space! He then proceeds to pointlessly explain how to delete lots of windows files which can be cleaned in a matter of seconds with most freeware drive cleaning apps and tries to sell one. A true IT pro would always recommend freeware in this instance, why should someone pay for something which can be done as well for free? Modern SSD and NVME support a function called TRIM. The purpose of this function is to optimise the drive to put the most frequently accessed files together at the start of the drive(fastest point of the drive). This is why an SSD or NVME should always have 25% or more space free(this would have been nice to include), it needs to swap files around and without the space cannot do it quickly enough, if your old enough or still use HDD think defragmentation just on the fly with prioritisation. Prefetch also makes use of this space, so if you do the same tasks over and over again, I would not recommend delete prefetch too much.

[@GHagar2024]

Most useful video, I’ve learned a lot, thank you!

[@wingblade6023]

Thank you, this was beyond helpful!

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@paulhotson5820]

"Advanced Systemcare" by IOBIT is great for cleaning up and is free to download.

[@garyhughes1664]

My computer has never been so clean. Always great advice. Thx for sharing.

[@jjajjoi2447]

thank you! this was useful one.

[@paradoxic1888]

Space Sniffer is a free tool that breaks your file sizes up into blocks making it easy to identify where all your space is going. But don't just delete files if you don't know what they are!

[@fpershoot]

real statement begins fromm BUT!!

[@EthanWarTheYT]

this video couldn't be better! thank you for saving me 20+ gigs!

[@LironSegev]

Let's gooooo 🔥🔥🔥 don't forget to sub 😂

[@markstowe3087]

Great info … timely as always!👏

[@LironSegev]

Thanks for watching!

[@BeowolfNindoJournal]

Thanks for the tips! I used a similar program called Auslogics, but it ended up messing up some of my system files. What are the chances of System Mechanic doing the same?

[@Smart-Skippy]

Yeah, Auslogics F***ed up one of my pcs

[@freddybermudez8501]

Great channel ! Thank you for your tips and tricks

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@TheTruthcometh]

Great video! Let me ask you this..Is there a way to transfer downloaded games, from a computer to an external hard drive?..If so how can i do that?

[@chrismcdonnell7448]

After watching this video and reading the comments, I am really glad I switched to Linux 4 years ago.

[@BijouBakson]

Well, that was useful! I managed to clear about 4GB of clutter on a 64GB drive. Huge difference! Thank you very much

[@adriandecu6846]

beautiful! thanks! from all, the ipconfig /flush was da best...thanks!!!

[@LironSegev]

Np!

[@chrisguli2865]

Very useful info! Question -Wouldn't Disk Cleanup accomplish the same (by also selecting "System File Cleanup")?

[@stronzer59]

most fossils born in the 50's have to reboot their pacemakers when seeing this tech

[@nandakumarlr3343]

Very Very useful and helpful. Thank you for explaining everything slowly and step by step and efficiently.

[@nusratjahan3705]

Jazakallahul Khairan brother 🌿it helped alot

[@adriandecu6846]

Thanks for these videos! Really helped me!

[@premiereproduction2140]

Great work!! Can I ask what software you used to do the animations to your videos? I need to get that! (mostly the arrows)

[@uwanttono4012]

Can I create a restore point if I get a message that my battery needs to be replaced? Am I disadvantaged in any way if I do this with my laptop in this condition? I've just recently found your vlog and I just love its practical ideas! Thanks for any help or pointers you can provide!!

[@ConorORegan]

I have a terrible habit of deleting useless files to the point that I bricked my laptop by doing it at one stage

[@LironSegev]

you should only delete files that CAN be deleted.

[@ConorORegan]

@@LironSegev I definitely learned that the hard way 😂

[@swapnil72]

idk if any IT Guy can relate with or not but anyways. I have a question for all those Tech Tutorial KZbin Guys out there : Let say you are at Point A & you want to reach a point F then why tf do you have to travel all the way to the points B,C,D,E. ?????? you can directly jump from point A to F Simple.

[@Mihaigaming22]

Thank you for showing me how to clean my search history 🙏😊

[@mbahmush1965]

About time my pc start lagging, thanks for the tips😃

[@LironSegev]

No problem!

[@MrGodsking]

@@LironSegev do you do remote computer work?

[@georgekelly9797]

Well I got to say this was a great video. Followed all steps and things are working great. Thank you for your help. Where can I get information on how to do a system image? Thank you.

[@johntowle]

No thanks I don't want any third party "system mechanic" working on my computer in the background.