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Category: Disk Clean up

  • Windows 7 Tips

    How to Schedule Disk Cleanup in Windows 7

    Schedule Disk Cleanup Basic
    Windows includes some handy tools to help keep your machine operating smoothly. One such tool is Disk Cleanup that can remove temp and old files to help you reclaim some hard drive space. You might want to set it up to run weekly or monthly depending on what works best for you. To schedule Disk Cleanup to run on a regular basis we need to schedule a task. For this example we’re using Windows 7, but the steps are essentially the same in Vista as well.

    Click on the Start Menu and enter task scheduler into the search box and hit Enter.
    The Task Scheduler opens and you’ll want to click on Action then select Create Basic Task.
    The Create Basic Task Wizard comes up and from here type in a name for the task and a description then click Next.
    Now select how often you want Disk Cleanup to run…Weekly, Daily, Monthly, One Time etc. There is not right or wrong answer to how often you run it. It’s completely up to you and you might want to try out some different schedules. In this example we’re going to select weekly.
    Since we set it up to run weekly we need to schedule it when to start, how often it reoccurs, and which day of the week to run it.
    Next under Action select Start a program
    In the Program/script field type in cleanmgr.exe
    Or you can hit browse and select Disk Cleanup which is in C:\Windows|system32\cleanmgr.exe
    Under Program/script you’ll see the path to Disk Cleanup as C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe
    Then you’re shown a summary of the scheduled task and if everything looks correct click on Finish.
    For this basic setting we scheduled it for a time when we know the computer will be in use. When it’s time for the Scheduled Task to occur it will pop up and you can run it by selecting the drive to clean up.
    Disk Cleanup starts its calculations
    Now the results and you can choose the files to delete.

  • Windows 7 Tips

    How to Schedule Disk Cleanup in Windows 7

    It’s always a good idea to run regular maintenance tasks like Disk Cleanup on your Windows machine to help keep it running smoothly. Today we take a look at how to schedule a basic Disk Cleanup task, and how to use command line switches for a more advanced setup.
    Schedule Disk Cleanup Basic
    Windows includes some handy tools to help keep your machine operating smoothly. One such tool is Disk Cleanup that can remove temp and old files to help you reclaim some hard drive space. You might want to set it up to run weekly or monthly depending on what works best for you. To schedule Disk Cleanup to run on a regular basis we need to schedule a task.
    Click on the Start Menu and enter task scheduler into the search box and hit Enter.
    The Task Scheduler opens and you’ll want to click on Action then select Create Basic Task.
    The Create Basic Task Wizard comes up and from here type in a name for the task and a description then click Next.
    Now select how often you want Disk Cleanup to run Weekly, Daily, Monthly, One Time etc. There is not right or wrong answer to how often you run it. It’s completely up to you and you might want to try out some different schedules. In this example we’re going to select weekly.
    Since we set it up to run weekly we need to schedule it when to start, how often it reoccurs, and which day of the week to run it.
    Next under Action select Start a program
    In the Program/script field type in cleanmgr.exe
    Or you can hit browse and select Disk Cleanup which is in C:\Windows|system32\cleanmgr.exe
    Under Program/script you’ll see the path to Disk Cleanup as C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe
    Then you’re shown a summary of the scheduled task and if everything looks correct click on Finish.
    For this basic setting we scheduled it for a time when we know the computer will be in use. When it’s time for the Scheduled Task to occur it will pop up and you can run it by selecting the drive to clean up.
    Disk Cleanup starts its calculations

    Now the results and you can choose the files to delete.

  • Add Disk CleanUp to Right Click on a Drive

    Disk Clean up is a utility that helps us in cleaning unwanted items on a disk or hard drive volume.  Now we shall see how to add this utility to the right click menu when we right on a particular drive in windows 7.


    We need to edit the registry to enable this. The steps for editing the registry and getting the Disk Clean up utility in the right click menu for disk partitions are as follows:
    Open the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\Shell

    Create a key under cmd by right clicking on it and click on New>key and name it as Diskcleanup
    Right click on that and again create a key and name it as command

    Change the data value on the right side to cleanmgr.exe /d %1
    Now you can see the clean up utility in the right click menu for every drive. 


  • How to do Disk clean up in Windows 7


            If you want to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space and help your computer run faster, use Disk Cleanup. It removes temporary files, empties the Recycle Bin, and removes a variety of system files and other items that you no longer need


    Click on Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools. Then click on Disk Cleanup. Alternatively you can open Start Menu and search for Disk Cleanup.



    Once open, select the drive you want to clean up. Mostly this will be the drive where you have Windows installed. Select C:\ drive.




    Let Disk Cleanup determine which files can be cleaned up.




    You will then see a dialog with the files that can be cleaned without any harm to the system. Select the files that you do not need and click OK.





    If you have admin access, you might want to clean up system files as well. Click on System Files in the above dialog. You will then see a More Options tab which you can use to remove old system restore points and shadow copies.


    These is applicable for Windows XP and Windows 7