As a result, I couldn't even navigate to the AppData folder to again uncheck the Read-only attribute. I was finally able to uncheck the Read-only attribute by using the file explorer and manually typing in the path to the AppData folder, rather than clicking to it.

Navigate to c:\Users\username\appdata execute the following command: mklink /d local d:\appdata\local replace d:\appdata\local with the actual path of where you moved the appdata to. If you cannot move/delete the original copy, create a 2nd user, make it administrator, login with it, and retry the option. This should ensure that no files are in ...

Note that this is NOT the Cache folder. It's the Cache of Service Worker, the path should be AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Service Worker. Recently I noticed my hard drive is almost full so I want to clean it up. I noticed the while the Cache folder is acceptable (200MB), the cache of Service Worker folder is so big (> 1GB).

There is another question on here that allows users to find the path to their current background image through a cmd command. How could I find out the path to the current desktop image? In Window...

What is the location of pinned start menu and taskbar items? Is this list a registry, or a folder somewhere?

If the likes of %appdata% (or a relative sub-path of it) is not working for you then you may need to put a \ between %appdata% and the rest of the path like so ... Most %% environment variables do not have the trailing \ so you have to add it yourself.

It's generated by Wininet, there is a scheduled task, the files can be deleted. Feel free to wipe the data as it's only a cache folder. In order to do that manually, you must change the permissions on the files, and delete all the files not currently in use.. I believe Disk Cleanup can also be used. You can view the contents in File Explorer by the way.

Trying to make space on my C drive. I see that my AppData/Local/Packages folder is almost 20GB! Is it safe to delete it? If not, can it be 'pruned' without affecting installed applications?

5 Windows 10 TaskBar folder is located at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

I would just correct that what the OP is asking about are not any special directories or shortcuts but regular environment variables. They may contain any numeric or alphanumeric value, some of them just contain filesystem paths.