How to set Last Access Limit on Temporary Files or Configure Disk Cleanup to clear Temporary Files accessed within a week in Windows Vista?


The Disk Cleanup feature in Vista cannot clear or delete the Temporary Files accessed within a week by default. This tutorial will help you in configuring Disk Cleanup to clear Temporary Files accessed within a week.


You can accomplish this in the following manner:

1) Open Registry Editor and navigate to the key branch

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ VolumeCaches \ Temporary Files in the left pane



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2) Double click the LastAccess key value in the right pane as highlighted in the figure above

3) Now type 0 and press OK button

Note: To restore default setting type 1



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4) Close Registry Editor

5) Log off and then Log on to your PC