Do you want to clear Windows 10 of everything without having to do a full
PC reset? Stay tuned. This is the best way to clear Windows 10 of your browser
history, temp files, stored credentials, recent file usage, system logs, and
updates while retaining your login and profile. If you follow these steps you
won't need to do a full system reset and you won't lose your applications or data
files. Click on Start, type in Control, and open up the Control Panel. In the list
choose User accounts and then Manage Your Credentials. Under Web Credentials
click the down arrow and remove each one of these credentials in the list. Go over
to your Windows Credentials and do the same thing. Remove each one of these
Windows Credentials. Close that window.
Click Start, type in Disk and choose Disk Cleanup. In the list select all of
the options available and hit OK. This deletes permanently temporary files. Go
back to the same place again and choose Clean Up System Files. Choose all the
options in this list and hit OK.
Click the Start button, go to Settings, choose System, select Storage from the
menu, and choose this Change How We Free Up Space.
Click Clean Now and it clears up some disk space. Close that, click on
Start, type in Run, and hit enter. Type Temp. Hit Enter. Now the disk cleanup doesn't
always clear out all your temp files so in this folder hit Ctrl-A to select all
the files and delete them. You can skip ones that are in use. Do this for all.
Close that, go back to Start again, type in Run, enter %temp% and do the
same thing for this folder. Close that, go back to Start, type in Run, and this time
enter "prefetch" and do the same thing again to clear everything out of that
folder. Close.
Click on Start, go to Settings, choose Privacy, click on Location, and then
scroll down the list and click this Clear History On This Device and close.
Click on Start, type in CMD, and right-click on the command prompt and run it
as administrator. It may prompt for credentials. Type in ipconfig /flushdns.
That clears your network dns settings. And close. Click on Start, type in event,
and select the Event Viewer. Under Windows logs on each one of these
Applications, Security, Setup, and System choose this Clear Log and hit Clear.
And close.
Open up your File Explorer and in the link put in %temp%. That brings up your
local temp file folder that we cleared out earlier. Go back one to the local
folder, scroll down to Microsoft, and then find Windows and choose Explorer. Scroll
down to where you see thumb files, select them all by holding the shift key, and
then delete those. Scroll back up, go back to the local folder again, and delete
this IconCache.db file and close.
If you use Edge open it up, click on the dot-dot-dot, go into Settings, scroll down
the list, and select this button to choose what to clear. Check all the boxes,
click the Show More, check all of these boxes, and click the Clear button and
close. If you use Internet Explorer open it up and go to the gear tool, click on
Internet Options. Under browsing history click this Delete button and select all
these entries and hit Delete and that's done. Hit OK and close. If you use Chrome
go to the menu, click on Settings, scroll down to the bottom of the list, click
Advanced, and then scroll down further until you locate Clear Browsing Data.
Click on that, go to the Advanced tab, in the down arrow make sure it's selected
on All Time. Select all the entries, click clear data,
and close.
And finally click on the Start button, type in Control, go into the Control
Panel, select System, click on System Protection,
click on Configure, and select Delete. Hit continue and it deletes all your restore
points. Hit OK to close, OK there, and close that window. Those 10 steps will clear
everything from your Windows 10 PC short of doing a factory reset. If you know of
any other hidden elements in Windows 10 please share them in the comments below
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