Friday, June 20, 2025

Cleaning Windows temp folder

As my SSD gets more and more stuffed, I’m searching for ways to remove the cruft from it. It’s a Windows 10 installation from 2018, which I have a feeling that it needs a fresh formatted install. But since I cannot afford that now, I just keep going.

Cleaning the temp folder manually is a cumbersome chore and also takes a lot of time. The batch script below, in the other hand, deletes all the files instantly:

echo Cleaning temp...
del /s /f /q %temp%\*
for /f %%f in ('dir /ad /b %temp%\') do rd /s /q %temp%\%%f
pause

A double click on the clean.bat file now can be done at any time, in no time.

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