What is Office Help Cache?

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Overview

Office Help Cache is published by Office. You can find out more about Office Help Cache at its official website or at Office's website.


How do I clean Office Help Cache?

Office Help Cache may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.

Clean Office Help Cache
with AppCleaner

If you want to clean Office Help Cache manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There is one location in the file system where Office Help Cache stores data that can be cleaned.

Files

To clean your file system from files stored by Office Help Cache and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system location. First of all, open a command prompt window:

  • Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
  • Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
  • Type cmd
  • Hit Enter

Now list all the files stored by Office Help Cache that can be cleaned:

  1. Type dir %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft Help\*
    • Windows XP: Type dir %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft Help\*

Once you have identified the files stored by Office Help Cache that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.

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