With time, our computer systems show a degradation in performance. Remember how everything used to be so fast in the beginning? Every process would take lesser time and you could easily open multiple apps at a time.
If you are looking for ways to enhance the performance of Windows 10 PC, then you must have already read that cleaning cache time to time also helps in speeding up. Over time, a lot of temporary files accumulate in system caches so clearing cache would not only help in enhancing the system performance but also in releasing some free space.
I am not saying that cache is bad and it piles up temporary files leading to poor performance. It’s the opposite actually, cache memory helps us in opening pages and applications faster which gives us a faster user experience. So, you need to clear cache on Windows 10 over a period of one or two months, not weekly(you can do that, just not suggested).
Now, there are many different types of cache in Windows 10. Let’s see, there is a browser cache for every browser, desktop applications cache, Windows store’s cache, search history cache, temporary files cache, DNS cache, thumbnails cache, etc. You can use a cleaner software for Windows to clean your system automatically. However, if you would like to clear cache of your Windows PC manually, then here are the easy steps to do that.
How to clear Windows Store’s cache in Windows 10
We are going to clear the Windows Store’s cache first. Although, there is no sequence and you can clear any cache first, totally up to you. Windows store stores a lot of data and clearing Windows store cache will really boost the speed, performance and free up space. Below are the quick and easy steps to clear Windows store’s cache in Windows 10.
Step 1: Open Run or just press Windows key + R. It will open the Run prompt for you
Step 2: Type WSReset .exe in the command prompt and hit “OK”.
It will open a new window, do a little processing and clear the Windows store’s cache in your system. That was easy, right.
How to clear Desktop applications’ cache in Windows 10
This cache stores data for your downloaded applications and programs. They help the applications to speed up the tasks. However, over time you may want to clean it up. Below are the steps to easily flush out your desktop applications’ cache.
Step 1: Go to the start menu, open disk cleanup.
Step 2: It will open a prompt to select a drive. After you select the drive, the utility will take some time in processing and show you a disk cleanup window.
Step 3: Click the program files, clean up system files at the bottom the windows. Click OK.
With these easy steps, you have cleared the applications cache of Windows 10.
How to clear temporary files cache in Windows 10
A lot of temporary files are created on daily basis in our Windows system. These files are mostly created as intermediary files. For example, a temporary file is created every time a file is modified or created. Many applications and games also create temporary files.
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Many times, the system cleaner automatically cleans these temporary files but some of the programs do not clean up their files and they pile up. So, you need to clear temporary files cache too. The steps are easy though.
Step 1: Open the start menu, type Disk cleanup.
Step 2: Select the drive in which your Windows is installed. It’s the C drive in most of the cases. You will see a prompt similar to the one shown below.
It will take some time to analyze all the files.
Step 3: Under the disk cleanup box, you will see a lot of options. Uncheck all of them, check the one saying “temporary files”. Click on OK.
With these steps, you just cleared the temporary files cache in your Windows 10 PC. Too easy?? Told ya!
Just for a quick tip, in the above image you see an option saying “Thumbnails”. You can check that too and it will clear the thumbnails cache for you. Thus clearing more cache in Windows.
How to flush Browser’s cache in Windows 10
Skyrim daedric follower mod. We do a lot of internet browsing. Our browser web pages and other information in the browser’s cache so that it would be faster for it to fetch the webpage or website next time. It sure helps in faster browsing but over a period of a few months, it accumulates a lot of data which is no longer required. So, in order to speed up the internet browsing and overall performance of Windows, it’s a good idea to clear browser cache from time to time.
Now, you might be using Microsoft edge browser or Google Chrome or Firefox or any other web browser. The process of clearing cache for different browsers is a little different but easy.
Clear cache of Microsoft Edge browser: Click on the “…” present at the top right corner. Now navigate to Settings>>Choose what to clear. From there choose all the things you want to clear like browsing history, cached files & data, cookies, etc. Click “Clear”. You have successfully cleared the browser cache of Edge browser.
Clear cache of Google Chrome browser: Navigate to Settings>>Show advanced settings>>privacy>>clear browsing data. Clear the cached files and images from the “beginning of time”. Doing this will clear the cache of your Google Chrome web browser.
Clear cache of Mozilla Firefox browser: To clear the cache files go to, Options>>Advanced>>Network. You will see an option saying Cached web content. Click “Clear Now” and it will clear the browser cache of Firefox.
How to clear DNS cache in Windows 10 PC
There is a DNS cache in our system. Whenever you visit a website through any web browser, your computer saves the DNS route of that website. For instance, when you visit Techgyd.com, your computer temporarily saves the routing data in DNS cache.
Clearing the DNS cache will also enhance browsing experience in your Windows PC. Follow the below steps to clear DNS cache in Windows 10 PC.
Step 1: Go to the start menu and type command prompt. You can also type “cmd”.
Step 2: In the command prompt, type ipconfig/flushDNS. Hit enter.
Step 3: It will process in very less time and will show you the following results.
Your DNS cache has been successfully cleared.
I have covered all the important types of cache present in Windows 10. By clearing them you can enhance the performance, space and speed of your Windows 10 PC. I would suggest you to keep clearing your Windows 10 cache from time to time. After all, it does not take much time but contributes a lot in improving the user experience. Bookmark this page for faster access in future.
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If I'm right, if I play a video on Youtube, when I'm using Firefox on a Windows machine, the browser stores the video file in the temp folder. So, theoretically, I should find that video already downloaded in the temp. But I don't know how to find in Linux the correspondent of the 'temp' folder. I have tried in the 'etc' folder but got nothing useful. Do you have any ideas how to sort this out?
Yesterday I have been playing a video on Youtube all day long, and now I see it's gone 'for copyright infringement, blah-blah', but I think the played file should be 'hiding' somewhere on my system, only if I could get to it somehow.. Can you help me with this?
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You can put
about:cache in the location bar, it should display where it keeps the 'temp' folder.
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I think you mean firefox
cache folder not ubuntu temp folder.
Firefox cache folder is located in
~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/cache/
Simply, go to your home folder and press
cntr + h to view hidden files. Then go to the .cache/mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/cache/ folder and search for your videos.
xxxxxxxx is a random string of characters.
A better approach is to install
gnome-search-tool via terminal using this command sudo apt-get install gnome-search-tool .
Launch it via the dash, its called
search for files , choose the firefox cache folder for the look in folder option.
Choose
select more options and in available options choose size at least and set it at about 5Mb, thats about 5120Kb and search. Leave the name contains blank.
In the search results you will find all your videos and all you have to do is
copy-paste them to another folder.
All the best.
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The temp folder on linux is
/tmp/ . Most of the linux softwares use it for storing temporary files, firefox does so too. For example when you say Open with .. for a file instead of downloading it firefox stores that file in /tmp/ . But this folder is emptied on every reboot (since these are temporary files which shouldn't be kept across reboots) so you won't find the files there after a reboot.
A few years ago youtube video caches were also saved here, like it is mentioned in this question, but things have changed. You can see what happened in the two most upvoted answers to that question: There was a time when the cached videos were simply moved to another folder, but later they moved it back to
/tmp/ but now they unlink the file so the file is not present in the file system but is still accessible with that trcik mentioned in the second most upvoted answer there. This latter method (from the second answer) is still working for most of the flash video websites, but it doesn't work anymore with youtube. Youtube have changed to not cache at all the video (or they cache in RAM, I don't know).
To sum up: That file is not on your drive, no need to search for it.
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