REMOVE AND BLOCK WINDOWS JUNK

EMPTY WINDOWS FOLDERS

What’s the problem?

Many Windows 10 users have experienced a bug whereby the operating system creates thousands of temporary folders for no apparent reason. Right-clicking these folders reveals them to have a file size of ‘0 bytes’ (1 in our screenshot below) and opening them confirms that they’re empty.

That might not sound like a major concern – after all, they aren’t using any drive space – but the sheer number of these pointless folders can mean scanning your PC for malware and junk takes much longer.

The folders all have names beginning with ‘tw’ and end with a ‘.tmp’ extension. On our system, we had more than 2,000 of them 2 – you can check your own hard drive by opening File Explorer and going to C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local 3. You may be warned that you don’t have permission to access system folders, but you can click Continue to proceed. Enabling your PC’s Administrator account (see page 62) will bypass this warning.

Frustratingly, the problem