Why Doesn’t Disk Cleanup Delete Everything from the Temp Folder?

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Published on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:00:37 +0000 Indexed on 2010/12/06 16:57 UTC
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After you’ve used Disk Cleanup, you probably expect every temporary file to be completely deleted, but that’s not actually the case. Files are only deleted if they are older than 7 days old, but you can tweak that number to something else.

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