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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Kevin - AFAIK Windows 10 doesn't have an automated regular removal of temporary files feature - thankfully. There's the Disk Clean up utility. but that must be run manually, or included in a Scheduled Task.
@DNSB would know for sure.
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The Storage Sense feature was introduced in Windows 10 v1809 so Nov. 2018.
There are also several times I've found people running utility programs that included the capability of cleaning up temp directories on an automated basis.
I don't want to think about one idiot program (BCWipe) that included the capability of wiping the free space on an SSD as part of it's cleanup. The effect on the lifetime of an SSD drive was very nasty. Take a 1TB Samsung 2.5" 860 SSD (early model with a 400TBW if I remember the spec correctly). Assuming it was never over half full and you had it set to wipe every 12 hours so rewriting ~500GB twice per day and in just over a year, the drive is being marked as bad. And no warranty since the warranty was 5 years or TBW whichever came first.