When your hard drive (especially an old HDD) gets clogged with millions of tiny temp files, the file system gets slower. Searching through 500,000 junk files to find the one you actually need takes time.
I have seen %temp% folders balloon to over 40GB. On a 256GB laptop with a modern game installed? That is a crisis. windows temporary files
If you’ve ever run a Disk Cleanup utility or peeked into the C:\Windows\Temp folder, you’ve likely seen a digital graveyard of folders with names like ~$doc.tmp or WinDB473.tmp . You might have wondered: What are these things? Can I delete them? Will my computer explode if I do? When your hard drive (especially an old HDD)