Questions tagged [disk-cleanup]
Disk Cleanup is a built-in tool in Windows to delete temporary files that are safe to delete.
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Clean up %windir%\Installer [duplicate]
The Windows (10) Installer directory is massive, over 25Gb for me.
Is there anything that can be tidied up here?
Also, what's it for?
Follow up
As removing it seems like a bad thing can I store it ...
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How much storage should be taken up by 'System' in MacOS Sierra
MacOS Sierra has a helpful "Manage Storage" option in "About this Mac".
I noticed that my Mac uses 152 gigs of storage just for "system". I'm wondering if that's normal, because it seems outrageously ...
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Syntax error in FOR loop in browsercache clearing batch script
I am trying to create a browsercache clearing script in batch, which could be run by an admin on a server to clear all users browser cache on demand, or by schedule.
However i am pretty stuck in the ...
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How to tell what last had access to and wrote to hard drive?
I've recently been losing hard drive space. I've been doing all I can to get rid of temporary files and whatnot, but I feel like it'd be more time-efficient if there was a way to pinpoint what program ...
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Windows 10 Home C:\ 1TB Disk cleanup resulting Windows Update cleanup 3,99TB
Have anyone seen this?
Windows 10 Home C:\ 1TB Disk cleanup resulting on Windows Update cleanup 3,99TB
On the right above the blue, you have the point, Windows Update cleaning 3,99Tt = 3,99Tb or ...
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Cleaning up previous versions of Microsoft tools
Since I develop .NET applications, one of the first things I do on my computer is install Visual Studio and the rest of Microsoft development tools.
Unfortunately they handle updates horribly. When I ...
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Cleanup Windows on startup or shutdown
My Environment
Multiple VMs all comprising of Various versions of Windows which is power on/off as needed
i like to cleanup my %temp% and other places on reboot so as to save space and also speed up ...
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What was the last thing to consume space?
I did a disk cleanup to free about 1GB of space, to realize moments after it was consumed by something once again.
How can I find out what took that space?
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Keep Disk Space Cleanup Manager from running while I'm working?
Every day I'm at my desk working away when my CPU fan takes off like an airplane. When I check my running processes it's almost always the Disk Space Cleanup Manager and today it was using 19% of my ...
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Where is the " Clean up System Files" in "Disk Cleanup Wizard"?
I am trying to reduce the size of my WinSxS folder by following this article on How-To Geek:
http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-your-winsxs-folder-on-windows-7-or-8/
In there ...
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Option to remove old windows update files from Winsxs not available in disk cleanup; KB2852386 IS installed
I have update KB2852386 installed so that I can cleanup old update files. I have a 30gb SSD which has absolutely NO space left on it. I want to cleanup my winsxs folder (21GB), but the option in disk ...
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cleanup C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp\PendingDeletes and PendingRenames
Both, the PendingDeletes and the PendingRenames folder within the windows temp folder are about 1GB in size. Is there any save way to empty or delete those folders?
C:\Windows\WinSxS >10GB
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Why should we wipe disks multiple times? [duplicate]
There exists various ways of destroying the data on a disk. Even simple wipes differ, some disk utilities give these options:
Format (does not actually wipe)
Wipe 1 time with zero
Wipe 1 time with ...
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Software to clean windows junk file [closed]
I'm looking for any free software or way around to clean junk files and make more space available in Windows drive.
Using Windows 10
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disable Compress old files checking in Disk Cleanup in Windows XP
On an OS drive with approx 168K files, 27K folders of approx 28GB, that include OS (Windows XP SP3), drivers and a bunch of large applications such as Visual Studio, MS Sql Server, MySql, Java, ...
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