In this article I’ll show you the way to move the temporary store folders to another disk location. This procedure works better in the case of the existence of a second hard drive on your system. Moving the Temporary folder to another location helps you easily find and delete all your temporary files (from inside Temporary folder) and maximize your system disk's free space. The user temporary folder is created inside each user’s profile and the full path depends from the operating system installed on the computer:įor Windows 8,7, VIsta OS the user temporary folder path is: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Tempįor Windows XP the user temporary folder path is: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp Windows uses (minimum) two temporary folders to store all temporary files created by computer usage: The system temporary folder: “ C:\Windows\Temp” (that stores all System temporary files) and the user temporary folder that stores temporary files from each user. The cleaning procedure of these files is a safety operation and you don’t lose any critical files that are needed from your system to operate normally. If you are running out of space in your system disk, then an easy solution to allocate free space, is to clear (delete) temporary files that were created from Windows services or programs installed on your computer.
