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How to clear Chrome/Chromium Edge Service Worker cache?
My own Service Worker cache is found at the folder:
C:\Users\USER-NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Service Worker\CacheStorage\3cedfb74d44f2e84198d23075aef16c34a668ceb.
I have tried ...
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Can I safely delete folder $GetCurrent in Windows 10?
Can I safely delete folder $GetCurrent in Windows 10?
Yes.
What Is $GetCurrent?
The $GetCurrent directory is created during the upgrade process. It
contains log files about that last ...
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How to clear Chrome/Chromium Edge Service Worker cache?
@harrymc has answered how to brute-flush your cache. Here's a method to go website-by-website, understanding a bit more about what's going on.
Ìf you insert [chrome/edge/vivaldi/...]://serviceworker-...
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Erase disk before selling
If the disk at any point contained sensitive information, or if you ever used the computer that the disk was installed in for sensitive purposes, then yes, a proper wipe is necessary.
Due to the ...
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Is it safe to empty C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\DataMart\PaidWiFi\OffersCache\Offers\?
Anyone tried emptying
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\DataMart\PaidWiFi\OffersCache\Offers\
The data contained within this location is only used if the Paid WiFi feature is enabled. Given ...
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How much storage should be taken up by 'System' in MacOS Sierra
If you are on High Sierra then… it's TimeMachine fault.
That's the solution that worked for me.
Type this command in you terminal:
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
to check the snapshots of ...
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Why is "Windows Update Cleanup" missing from my Disk Cleanup?
As neither of the proposed answers worked for me directly, I put here the steps I have to do in order to get "Windows update cleanup" option:
1) Make sure that KB2852386 is installed. You can check ...
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Is it safe to empty C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\DataMart\PaidWiFi\OffersCache\Offers\?
To add more to the top voted answer by @RamHound, it is completely safe to remove that folder now. The functionality has been confirmed as defunct.
On the 7th February 2019, Microsoft updated this ...
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Disk Cleanup doesn't remove $WINDOWS.~BT
Attempt to launch cleanmgr on the C:\ drive. Use the button Clean up system files to compute how to remove the $WINDOWS.~BT folder.
The files contained with $WINDOWS.~BT are not technically system ...
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How to clear Chrome/Chromium Edge Service Worker cache?
A safer solution to clear that folder:
In chrome/edge/vivaldi, go to "Settings" -> "Privacy and Security" -> "Cookies and other site data" -> "See all ...
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Large amount of space on C drive (system volume information folder) used by files with .BLOB extension in Windows 10
Sounds like you have Acronis True Image running on your PC. This utility is intended to protect you from ransomware by giving you the chance to stop third party applications changing your files, and ...
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Erase disk before selling
If you have any Linux in hand, this is very simple and easy:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
where sdX should be replaced by the actual device of the disk you want to wipe.
Quick estimation about ...
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Why does Disk Cleanup take so much time and cpu?
One way to mitigate this problem and speed up the "Windows Update Cleanup" phase of "Disk Cleanup" a bit is to temporarily set a higher priority for the TiWorker.exe process for ...
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Why is "Windows Update Cleanup" missing from my Disk Cleanup?
There is another workaround
From an elevated command prompt, type the following:
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
Then
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /...
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When running `rm -rf`, is it possible to exclude certain subdirectories?
Another option:
Check the output of
env ls -d -1 space/* | grep -E -v 'var_opt|var_log'
If that looks like the list of files/folders you want to delete, use
env ls -d -1 space/* | grep -E -v 'var_opt|...
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Where is the " Clean up System Files" in "Disk Cleanup Wizard"?
It already shows you all options to clean system files (system service pack cleanup and the dialog more options are a system task).
Running it as normal user doesn't show it and shwos the button:
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Keep Disk Space Cleanup Manager from running while I'm working?
Disk Space Cleanup Manager has two auto-starting tasks.
1 : SilentCleanup (which you already disabled from task scheduler)
2 : StartComponentCleanup
In order to disable StartComponentCleanup, go to ...
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How much storage should be taken up by 'System' in MacOS Sierra
I believe that when I got my MBP, the size was around 16 GB.
One night the size of the 'System' section of my storage increased 40 GB in an hour (though, I am running the High Sierra Beta). I ...
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How do I remove the Downloads option from Disk Cleanup?
Create a System Restore Point.
Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
Go to the following branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\...
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Disk Cleanup and Temporary Files
As mentioned Windows 7 has one location, Windows 10 has 4. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Temporary Files\LastAccess is a retention setting. By default Windows sets it ...
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How to tell what last had access to and wrote to hard drive?
The answer is process monitor by microsoft.
It combines a bunch of tools.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx
There is a toolbar at the top, and you can unclick ...
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prevent cleanmgr.exe from deleting tmp files
If by Disk Cleanup you mean the automatic job that is triggered when disk space
is low, than your first priority should be to find out why it is low and
free up some disk space. Windows running out of ...
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Disk Cleanup doesn't remove $WINDOWS.~BT
I finally was able to delete the c:\$WINDOWS.~BT folder and it's sub-folders by restarting my computer into CMD, then removing the directory that way:
Restart computer into CMD
rd c:\$WINDOWS.~BT /s
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Used Disk Cleanup, now my Win7 won't boot
Disk Cleanup is usually very safe to use, so it's possible that some
new hardware error has occurred (especially with an old disk).
To recover, you will need a Windows 7 boot media of the same
service ...
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Erase disk before selling
Do it more securely with pseudo random numbers from /dev/urandom instead of zeros from /dev/zero. As root or as normal user with sudo:
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
With
bs= blocksize, ...
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Semantics of "Implies" on command line switches
With the DOS/Windows Command Prompt, implies ... means that you do not have to specify both switches; specifying the one that implies the other is sufficient. In the example you present, if you are ...
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Windows 7 Disk Cleanup deleted 30GB of temp files but only recovered 10GB of disk space?
Chances are good the system is in fact retaining data in the form of shadow copies (system restore points). Shadow copies are basically snapshots of the contents of the disk at specific points in time,...
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How can I fix computer that won’t even boot up
Some of the first things I do when I have issues:
Unplug the power cable from the computer and press the power button to drain the capacitors off all power. Then plug the power cable back in and try ...
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Disk Cleanup and Temporary Files
Where are these temporary files?
By default the files are located here:
C:\Temp aka %TEMP%
Has anyone been able to copy files to that location and re-run Disk
Cleanup and see the size increase?
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why do I find registry problems and unnecessary files after Windows 10 reset and might they cause further problems?
Few tips for the CCleaner-user.
1) please exclude those and dont let the ccleaner correct them - this might cause problems for your registry and huge amount of gray hairs
2) thats a long and well-...
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