It can delete temporary files and system files, empty the Recycle Bin, and remove a variety of other items that you might no longer need. You can use Disk Cleanup on a regular basis to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your drives, which can free up drive space and help your PC run better. It’s more important to have them on my local Windows system.Įven though you might have less to store, and hard drive space is easy to come by these days, running cleaning up your hard drive regularly is still important for an overall healthy computer.How to Open and Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 10 I know I don’t like cloud services to default to automatically save my pictures. Even if the files aren’t ripped CDs or DVDs, there’s plenty of home videos and pictures that you might not trust to be saved on Google Drive or SkyDrive. Still, there’s plenty of people who still have large media collections on their computer hard drive. So, there’s less of a need to have gigabytes of media files stored. Nowadays more of our music and video is streamed from the cloud via services like Spotify, MOG, or Amazon Instant video. Now Disk Cleanup will run monthly at the selected time automatically. You’ll get a summary of the task you just created. In the Add Arguments field type: /sagrun:1 and click Next. In the Program/script field type: C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe. Next, select the date and time each month you want the task to run. On the Task Trigger screen select how often you want to run it. Type in a name for the task and description. When Task Scheduler comes up, you need to create a new task. Click Action and click Create Basic Task. To create the Scheduled Task click Start and type: task scheduler into the search box. Click OK and close out of the command prompt. Click the files you want to have Disk Cleanup delete. Hit Enter.Īt the command prompt type: cleanmgr.exe /sageset:1 then hit Enter. Set Windows to Run Disk Cleanup Automaticallyįirst, some command line magic - click Start and type: cmd in the search box.
But remembering to run it regularly is the tough part. We previously showed you how to run Disk Cleanup and how to clean temp files it misses. Note: This will work with Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, and XP
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