How to Clear Cache in Windows 7 Using Command Prompt [UPDATED]

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If you run multiple applications in Windows at the same time, you may notice that the performance of your system gradually decreases over time. If you use an application or use a task manager, applications or threads related to the application can not be completely dropped.

It matches your system's memory resources and makes your system sluggish and feasible. You think this is a way to reboot your machine. We found an easy way to flush the memory cache without rebooting
How to Clear Cache in Windows 7 Using Command Prompt
How to Clear Cache in Windows 7 Using Command Prompt

Like every operating system, Windows also stores different types of cache files. In simple words, cache files are temporary files that are stored on the memory. Cache data uses a lot of hard disk space. Deleting cache files is easy to run.

Cache memory computers, slow processing speed, slow startup, hang, or Application Response is the problem and many other things. Or post here if you do not have your Windows computer, you know how to clear the cache memory, we'll talk about how to clear the cache memory on a Windows computer.


There are many types of cache, such as memory cache, DNS cache, browser cache, and thumbnails cache. You know that you can get any kind of cache from any device. Clear memory cache to free up some system memory, clear DNS cache to solve Internet connection issues, clean thumbnails cache on the hard disk, clear browser cache to solve browser problems, and increase performance

So, here we will discuss how to clean cache (memory cache, DNS cache, browser cache, and thumbnail cache) from Windows PCs, laptops, desktops.

 Now in this tutorial, we are sharing how to clear the cache from a Windows PC or a laptop.

How to Clear Cache in Windows 7 Using Command Prompt

Clean Memory Cache on Windows

If you notice that your computer is running sometimes you need to use this process to free up unused RAM and increase the performance there.

How to clean memory cache on windows

To clear the memory cache on a Windows PC or laptop, right-click anywhere on the desktop, click on New> Shortcut

When clicking on the shortcut, after asking for the location of the shortcut, a new pop-up window will open and click Next.


%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,processldleTasks

Name and click Finish

Now open the newly created shortcut and you will see a slight battery display.

Clear the app data file to clear the memory cache

Step 1: At the first step, you have clicked the "Start" button or press the "Windows" key and click "Computer" to open my computer.

Step 2: If you do not see my computer window, then initially type "my computer" and press the "Enter" button.

Step 3: Once the above process is complete, you will have to click on the "Manage" tab.

Step 4: Then, select "Folder and Search Options" in the Organize drop-down menu.

Step 5: A Folder Options dialog box will appear with tab, click on the View tab.

Step 6: Now you have to click on "hidden files, folders and drives" under the "Hidden files and folders" radio button.

Clear DNS cache on windows

To clear DNS cache

To open the command, click on All> All Programs> Accessories> Command Prompt [Command Prompt Right Click] and click on Run As Administrator.


Now type ipconfig / flushdns and press enter

After clicking Enter, you will see a message that the DNS Resolve Cache has successfully ended.



Clear Thumbnail Cache

To clear the thumbnail cache, right-click on your primary disk partition (where Windows is installed) and open the properties dialog box and click on disk clean-up.

Select disk partition, clear the thumbnails cache you wish to delete, scan the program veineness files

Once located on the checkbox, check the thumbnails and click OK.


Clear the browser's cache on a PC or laptop

In PCs or Laptops we use many internet browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox etc. So we're sharing this browser's cache step-by-step guide.

How to clear cache in Google Chrome

Go to the Chrome browser toolbar and click the Chrome menu icon [at the top right corner]> click More Tools> Clear Browsing Data

Use the drop down menu to select a time range

Click the check box and click Browse data. Check cookies and other site and plug-in data and cached images and files check box.

Then click on the browsing data button and wait a few minutes. Just that.


How to clean cache in Mozilla Firefox

Go to the Firefox menu bar and click on the Open menu icon.

Select the option icon

Select the Advanced icon and then select the Network tab.

Click the Clear Now button under the cached web content heading


How to clear cache in Internet Explorer

Click on the settings icon and select Internet Options

Browsing History

Select the checkboxes for temporary Internet files and website files and cookies and website data check box, select the check box, and then click the delete button.

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