A player starts his gaming PC and finds thousands of anime images on his PC. The culprit is an RGB software that diligently copies images onto his computer.
A user starts his gaming PC and finds thousands of anime images on his PC. The reason for the many images is probably a software from a manufacturer that officially specializes in SSDs and RAM.
What kind of images are these? A user reports on Reddit that he discovered anime images after booting up his gaming PC. And not just a few, but thousands of images that occupy a total of 50 GB on his computer. All the images were saved in the temporary folder of Windows.
Software repeatedly creates copies of old images and does not delete them
Where do the images come from? The culprit for all the images is not the user himself, but a software that is called “XPG Prime”. This is software from the manufacturer Adata, which sells gaming products under the brand “XPG”. The software is responsible for controlling and synchronizing RGB. Under the “Background Image” section, XPG Prime allows users to change the background image of the gaming PC from one of 17 options.
The English-language site Tomshardware tested where all the images come from: In their short test, the site found that the software does not delete the temporary background images, but instead creates new, redundant copies with each restart that are deposited again on the PC. The magazine emphasizes that 50 GB of data is indeed significant, as about 15 MB of data would accumulate with each process:
- To get 50 GB of images, one would have to restart their PC about 3,000 times.
- Gamers who restart their gaming PC three times a day would still hit around 15 GB per year.
In the end, the solution to the problem is: deleting the contents in the temporary folder of Windows. Because here, only data that has once been needed is really stored temporarily. You can’t go wrong by deleting the contents from the Windows temp folder.
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