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How to clear all type of caches in windows 10

Sometimes so much cache can pile up in your system that it occupies a lot of storage space and may even slow down the performance. So it's important to clear it to free up disk space and improve performance. You are reading this article so it's more likely you don't know how to do that, just follow the steps given below.

Clear Cache In Windows 10

There are different ways to clear the cache in Windows 10:

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Method 1: Clean the cache with CCleaner

This way of doing the job is the easiest one as you just have to install software and just do a few clicks to clear out the cache in windows 10.

01 Download and Install CCleaner 32 or 64 bit

02 Run the Program and click 'Analyse'

Clearing cache in windows 10 using CCleaner

03 Click "Run Cleaner" to delete all the unnecessary files and cache files

Clearing cache in windows 10 using CCleaner

Method 2: Use Settings To Clean Cache

You can clear temporary files and cache files in your windows settings 

01 Search "Storage Settings" in Windows Start Menu

Clearing Windows 10 Cache in Windows Settings

02 Click "Storage Sense or run it now" text

03 Check the "Delete Temporary Files" option and click "Clean Now", you can also configure this feature to automatically delete these files daily, weekly, or monthly

Clearing cache in windows settings

04 Wait for the scanning procedure to complete

05 Select the files you want to delete and click "Remove Now"

Wait for some time and this should remove all those unwanted unnecessary temporary caches.

Method 3: Using Disk cleanup

You can also use the default windows disk cleanup utility to remove all temporary files

01 Open windows run application by pressing Windows home key + R

02 Write cleanmgr.exe into the field and press Enter

03 Select the drive you want to clean and hit Clean Up System Files, check all the items and press ok

04 Click Delete Files

05 Wait for the system to remove all those files

That's all about how you can clear your computer's cache using the disk cleanup utility in windows 10

Method 4: Clean your browser's cache

Browsers also produce a lot of cache and impacts loading time when accumulated so much. Here's how you can delete this:

01 Press ctrl + shift + delete at the same time

02 Open advanced tab check all time, cached images and files, and browsing history and press clear data

Clearing Browser Cache In Windows 10

Method 4: Clear temporary files manually

You can use this method to clear all temporary files manually from the temp folder

01 Press Windows home button + R at once and type temp

02 Select all files and delete it

Deleting temporary files in windows 10

03 Now using the same shortcut to open windows run box again but this time type %temp%

Clearing temporary files in windows 10

Using all these methods, you can clean all different types of caches and temporary files on your computer. If you have any further queries feel free to use the comment section down below