The hard drive on my wife’s computer is almost full, even though she uses it mostly for email. While looking for things to delete, I noticed that the WindowsTemp folder contains 180 gigabytes of data.

If your storage drive is always running out of space and you're not sure what's eating it up, check your temporary files. They can balloon into massive storage hogs, sometimes consuming dozens of ...

Windows creates temporary files in the background to keep everything running smoothly. But over time, these hidden files quietly pile up in system folders, slowly eating away at space you could use ...

A file created by an application for its own purposes. In the days of limited main memory, temporary files were the only way to store large amounts of interim data that the application was generating.