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by marian0_ 3192 days ago
The OS does it by itself. It even includes an application so you can do it yourself if you want which is called "Disk Cleanup".
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Just as one data point, the last time I ran Disk Cleanup, it hosed my entire Windows installation. The bug in question was documented as occurring in Vista, but wasn't fixed in Windows 7, and for all I know, still isn't:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/serious-disk-cleanup-probl...

I'm admittedly out of the loop, last time I used disk cleanup would have been Win7, I guess MS expanded it to do much more useful work?
On my W10 install, CCleaner usually finds ~1GB more than Disk Cleanup, not even counting browser caches.