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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Where are "temporary files" cleaned by Windows 7 Disk Cleanup?
My disk cleanup seems unable to delete a lot of messages worth of "temporary files" that it sees, even after I went and deleted contents of various temporary folders I found myself. I would like to ...
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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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When running `rm -rf`, is it possible to exclude certain subdirectories?
I routinely use bind mounts to aid in making space available in multiple locations without having to have multiple logical volumes / physical partitions / LUNs, etc.
For example, I may have a 200G LV ...
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Windows 7: What is \Windows\Temp?
Trying to figure out where all the room on my new laptop went I found over 90GB eaten up by my c:\Windows\Temp directory.
None of these files I recognize and many seem to have not changed in months. ...
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Disk Cleanup and Temporary Files
When you run Disk Cleanup one of the categories is "Temporary Files".
Where are these temporary files?
Has anyone been able to copy files to that location and re-run Disk Cleanup and see the size ...
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Is there any software for cleaning Windows' temp folder?
Is there any software for cleaning Windows' local settings / temp folder?
With no installing, not many options, just a simple, nice interface with buttons to do what's needed and which wouldn't ...
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How to clear Chrome/Chromium Edge Service Worker cache?
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 ...
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Why does Disk Cleanup take so much time and cpu?
Just a curiosity question. Disk Cleanup has been spending 100% of one of my cores for quite a while and still going. Seems to be spending a lot of time especially on Windows Update Cleanup.
Can't ...
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Windows Disk Cleanup: "Compress old files" option
Should I check "compress old files" option while performing disk cleanup on Windows XP? What are the pros and cons?
Likewise, there is another option in Local Disk Properties window: "Compress drive ...
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Erase disk before selling
I have an old Windows 7 computer that I want to format and prepare for selling to somebody. I am using Parted Magic for disk operations and I'm wondering if "erasing the disk safely" is really ...
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Is it possible to delete `C:\ProgramData\Microsoft` folder without breaking programs?
I have a large hard drive, but over the course of time, I find that I now only have 5 GB of space. While manually looking through my hard drive, I noticed that the folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft ...
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Windows 7 Disk Cleanup deleted 30GB of temp files but only recovered 10GB of disk space?
Windows 7 was reporting I had 9.49 GB space free on my primary C: (SSD) drive:
Windows Disk Cleanup reported I had 28.1 GB of "Temporary files" that could be deleted to get this space back (together ...
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When to use disk cleanup
How often should you do a disk cleanup and when you do what should you delete?
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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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Is there a way to know what the Windows Disk Cleanup utility will delete?
When I run the Disk Cleanup utility that's built into Windows 8, it tells me that it can free up 53GB by deleting 'Temporary Files'. However, a CCleaner analysis on default settings only finds about ...
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If I use CCleaner regularly, will it damage or reduce the life time of hard disk?
I found CCleaner very useful to clean all unnecessary data on a hard drive and wipe out free space.
But what makes it different from normal delete to secure delete, and I wonder what it will do on ...
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System Volume Information folder occupied 100 gb
I have been noticing recently, my C drive gets occupied fully even if there are no bigger programs installed.
Out of 150gb, after uninstalling few programs, the space left was 30gb. Day by day it ...
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