How to clean temporary system files with administrator protective folders using C Sharp. Temporary files must be deleted because they cause much trouble on our computers. Today our article is about cleaning up computers with the help of the programming language C Sharp.
What are the temporary files on our computers?
Temporary files or cache files are those which are used for quick purposes. Our computer store these temporary files and folders in a specific location that must be cleaned up to run any other programs smoothly.
There are few temporary folders which all we know. These folders are:
- Prefetch
- temp
- %temp%
Most of the time different types of softwares use the term cache for cleanup. In Windows 10 and later Windows operating system cache files are stored in temporary files. And temporary files are stored in a single folder which is called the temp.
Why temporary files are very necessary to delete?
Including these, there are other folders such as prefetch and %temp%. This folder must be deleted because it will slow up your computer programs.
Another importance of cleaning temporary files is to play different games monthly. You hear about pubg mobile and most of the players use can Gameloop to play a game. Most of the time Gameloop slows down due to these temporary files so you must delete it before going to play pubg mobile.
Before going to write code in C sharp to delete temporary files we must take a look at different problems.
Problem 1: One of the first problems is running programs in the background. Running programs in the background will cause exceptions in our c Sharp program and they must be closed before going to use the cleaning process.
For this reason, we have to close all the programs such as Google Chrome, etc. We can also mention the exception in our program labels to identify if our program stop working.
Problem 2: Another problem in our program is permission denied for specific folders such as prefetch in Windows 10 or later.
Whenever we open the prefetch folder in Run Command it will show in the message.
"Currently you don't have permission to access this folder"
The message will not allow you to access it until you click on the continue button. This continue button will allow how access to the folder with administration privileges.
Our program will automatically access this folder using the code. Here is the code example.
Program pattern
- We will identify the running programs and we will close all these programs first.
- Then we will get complete full control access for the specific folder
- And then we will delete each file and we can also delete a whole folder for each loop.
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