The «Disk Cleanup» utility is a very simple tool that allows you quickly delete stuff like temporary and
cache files so you can free up space on your hard drive (s).
The applications that you're running create temporary files, not to litter your hard drive, but to store files while the application is working on them — whether it's downloading files, storing files that you're currently editing, or just
caching files so the next time you open the application the files will be more quickly accessible.
Not exact matches
Caching plugins work by saving dynamically generated HTML
files so they can be re-used instead loading them afresh with every page visit.
The Kindle Fire acts as a small store for commonly used
files, but «we've extended that with the Amazon computing cloud to offer a virtually limitless
cache for the common
files images, cascading style sheets, JavaScripts that are used to render the web pages you use every day... that's all atop Amazon computing utility systems
so it doesn't take a single byte of storage from the device itself,» Joe Jenkins, the director of software development for Amazon Silk, said on the video.
However most of these websites (just as youtube - mp3) have an internal
cache which stores the already processed mp3 / mp4
files,
so if users download copyrighted material they will store in their server copyrighted content, thus illegal distribution.
Cache files can consume quite a bit of storage space if allowed to grow unchecked, so clearing cache files can free up disk space and make your file system perform better — at least, until those caches inevitably fill up a
Cache files can consume quite a bit of storage space if allowed to grow unchecked,
so clearing
cache files can free up disk space and make your file system perform better — at least, until those caches inevitably fill up a
cache files can free up disk space and make your
file system perform better — at least, until those
caches inevitably fill up again.
Ironically, in doing
so, it may have dumped
files out of the
cache that were actually speeding up your phone.
This post will show you the location of these
cache files,
so that you can delete IconCache.db and thumbcache.db
files, in order to rebuild the icon
cache and clear the Thumbnail
cache in Windows 10.
Programs often need to create
cache files,
so they may crash or experience other errors.
So prior to trying out the fix mentioned below, you should give the following a try: Updating / reinstalling / synching apps, disabling all third - party apps, switching to Microsoft account from local account and vice versa, resetting app
cache, running Windows Apps Troubleshooter and running the System
File Checker command.