Is this ok to remove temporary files with the disk cleanup?

as I checked, temporary files takes about 30GB of space on my drive. I am currently using windows 7 Home Basic. I'm trying to free up some space on my laptop coz, it's been slow lately. It will improve the performance of my laptop? Thank you! responses are much appreciated.

'about 30 GB of my disk space "

It's a bunch of temporary files. Even 3 GB would be enormously, but yes, you can leave

Disk cleanup deletes some Temp files it wishes. Cannot remove files that are used.

Disk Cleanup is actually rather conservative in what it removes. I often deleted a large number of

Disk Cleanup files left behind.

Update of Windows and the service pack files may use a lot of space. Especially if disk cleanup

has not been executed on a regular basis.

Disk Cleanup can also remove these files, but if there are recent updates, it may be safer to wait

you know that they cause no problem.

If you haven't defraged the HARD drive for a while, doing so should also help speed things up.

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