Why are there so many files on my computer?

[Christine]

When I first purchased my computer about 3 years ago there were about 200,000
files on it (according to my weekly virus scan). Now there about 575,000. I
suspect that there are some folders or files somewhere on my hard drive with
tens of thousands of useless files that I could delete. Is that true? I am
good about performing regular housekeeping like the disk clean-up and
deleting the temporary internet files and cookies. Any advice would be
greatly appreciated so thanks in advance. ~Christine

 

[Andrew E.]

Go to run,type:%Temp% Go to edit in new window,select all,delete all,close
out.Return to run,type:C:\WINDOWS\Temp Edit,select all,delete all.Not all
will
delete (some are in use),if alot remain,create a new folder,delete all but 5%
or so,delete folder,delete rest till youre denied,close out when thru,run
disk
clean-up.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

When I first purchased my computer about 3 years ago there were
about 200,000 files on it (according to my weekly virus scan). Now
there about 575,000. I suspect that there are some folders or files
somewhere on my hard drive with tens of thousands of useless files
that I could delete. Is that true? I am good about performing
regular housekeeping like the disk clean-up and deleting the
temporary internet files and cookies. Any advice would be greatly
appreciated so thanks in advance.

Could be anything. Normal growth, installed applications (I would bet a few
have been installed in 3 years), saved files (including pictures, music,
etc), email related files, and so on...

If you are *not* running out of space and all of those files are not in a
single directory (no sub-directory) - I would not be concerned. If you
still are:

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-slim

Download, install and use it to cleanup.