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Clean Temp Files Automatically or Manually With Empty Temp Folder

The more often you run your computer, the more temp files you get. If you don’t clean temp files periodically, the size of temp files could affect the performance of the computer. It gets slower and slower over time. Thus, temp files need to be cleaned regularly and this can be done by using Empty Temp Folders, a freeware designed to do more than simply cleaning up temp files.

You can clean temp files manually with Empty Temp Folders, or automatically at scheduled time by using the additional tool called EmpRunner. With EmpRunner, the Empty Temp Folders can be scheduled to clean temp files every 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 minutes or every 1, 2, 3, 4 hours.

However, you need to specify which temp folders you want to clean before. This can be easily done by selecting all the folders in the list of the temp folders that has been provided within the program. Of course you can add more, but make sure you know what you are going to clean before adding your own folders.

Clean temp files with Empty Temp Folders

If you want to clean cookies, history files, URLs and the contents of the Recycle Bin as well, you can do it by configuring the program to do so from the its “Options” window. Still in the same window, you can specify that the temp files to be cleaned must be older than certain days as well as to start the program when Windows starts. The program can be set to instantly clean temp files when Windows starts and to immediately close down after the cleaning is finished.

There are additional cleaners that lets you clean the contents of Windows clipboard and remove broken shortcuts. However, I found that the free invalid shortcut remover I have posted before, Orphans Remover, is a lot better in cleaning up the broken shortcuts.

Empty Temp Folders

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Delete Files Automatically With Auto Delete

Keeping your harddisk space clean from unused files is a constant challenge. You run several maintenance utilities to wipe out temporary files, broken registry keys, broken shortcuts and so on, periodically. It’s still easy, anyway. The real challenge is perhaps keeping the space clean from unused files that you create yourself. Then, Auto Delete could be the automatic deletion freeware you want to try.

The only function of Auto Delete is to delete files in a specified folder that are older than the specified days, weeks or months. You could run it manually, but the automatic way is simpler. Make sure that the option “Start delete on Windows startup” is checked and it will delete the files automatically every time you start Windows.

Unluckily, we can’t define custom age for the files to be deleted. The options are limited to the available ages, or time frames, within the application. Select if you want to automatically delete files that are older than 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year.

The subfolders can be included in the scanning and deletion process. A user can select if the status window should be displayed during the progress and if the files detected are moved to recycle bin.

Nothing is perfect, though. It’s easy to use. It does enable a novice user to delete files automatically without typing any code, but only one folder that can be selected to be processed with the program.

Auto Delete

Auto Delete

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