Windows 11 KB5074105 adds a UAC prompt for Storage settings, but Settings can’t clean Windows Update files anymore.

A file created by an application for its own purposes. In the days of limited main memory, temporary files were the only way to store large amounts of interim data that the application was generating.

Windows 11 hides some Temporary files cleanup options in Storage settings, including Windows Update files, after the KB5074105 update.

Storage Sense is a feature in Windows 11 that automatically manages storage intelligently. It can monitor your storage usage and warns you when storage is full. You ...

If you are a Windows 11/10 user, you might have seen the DumpStack.log.tmp file in your C drive. This file is located in the root directory of your Windows computer. However, it is not necessary that ...

Changing the location of Firefox's temporary files folder can be useful when your PC is equipped with a small SSD (60GB). Moving the temporary folder to another drive will help to prevent frequent ...

Windows has several built-in ways to remove junk files, including Disk Cleanup and Storage Sense, but they rarely clear everything. Temporary caches, app logs, and leftovers from uninstalled programs ...

I'm only an occaional Unix user, but I think the temporary directory is always /tmp and you don't need to worry about where exactly that points to in terms of the physical disks in the machine.