When you open an MS Word document, view images online, or install software on your device, your operating system creates temporary files on your machine to help with those tasks. We may call them junk files, but this data once served a purpose. When it’s so easy to remove junk files, why not declutter your computer to increase its performance? In this article, I’ll show you how. Manual decluttering might not be as fast, but it’s also not that complicated – you just have to find the scrap and get rid of it.
Digital decluttering is much easier than cleaning your room – and removing junk files will probably make your computer perform better.Īlthough Windows and macOS have OEM apps that make the process easier, they’re limited in what they can do.