Temporary files increasing every day by the gigabyte

Anonymous
2019-04-05T12:22:36+00:00

Yesterday I went to a computer repair person because I was getting messages that I was out of storage.  He had never heard of this problem but he ran a piece of software and said I would be good for a long time.  Well since yesterday another 6 gigs of temporary files have appeared in my storage.  I read some other articles first in this forum and tried the troubleshooter method and that didn't do anything.  It said it could not find anything wrong.  I don't want to bring it back to the computer repair person because he was just as perplexed as I am right now.

James

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. DaveM121 936.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-04-07T19:54:52+00:00

    Hi James, excellent, well done, that does look much better, a long process, but we got there!

    Yes, the MS Community is an amazing place, users from all over the world come here to help each other out :))

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-04-07T19:51:18+00:00

    I found a work around for gpedit.msc online that seemed to work.  I had to download something but then I could get to it.  Then I did find out what I was looking for in regedit and followed the steps.  Rebooted.  Deleted the temp files and then re-booted again.  I think I have it now.  See the attached screen shot.  Lets hope this is it.  Will send you an update tomorrow when I check the storage again.  thanks again for all your help.  I always amazed that there are people out there that just want to help.  The world is a better place than we think it is.

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  3. DaveM121 936.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-04-07T15:08:35+00:00

    Hi James

    Skip that first step, you won't have Group Policy Editor, that is only available in Windows 10 Pro.

    Continue with the second step - Disable the AppX Deployment as explained below:

    Click your Start Button, type regedit and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor

    Click View and make sure 'Address Bar' is turned on

    Paste this into the Address Bar at the top and hit Enter

    Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AppXSvc

    Double click Start in the right hand pane, then set its value data to 4 and click OK

    Restart your PC and again delete everything form the Temp folder . .

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-04-07T15:01:56+00:00

    Dave:  I went through that link.  The person's solution tells you to type WIN+R and type gpedit.msc.  My computer says it can't find that file.  When I go to the next step disable the appx deployment service, I typed WIN+R again and got regedit to work but there is not HKLM\System.  There is only HKEY choices.  I'm not sure what to do at this point.

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