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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Can't delete/remove temporary files Windows 10
I have tried to remove "Temporary files" in Settings > Storage
and in Disk Cleanup tool
But after selecting and running the removing/deleting/cleaning process nothing happens, the "...
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Disk cleanup not running after i cleanned the %temp%, temp, prefetch files?
I am completely unsure what caused this but i was cleanning my pc by using the run command and entering %temp%, temp, prefetch files and i deleted all files from those folders. I double checked to be ...
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Deleting empty folders inside a folder for iTunes Media cleanup (Mac)
My iTunes library has some time ago split up into two locations and now I want to merge them, but before I do so I want to clean up the folders. In the iTunes Media list, there are artist folders, ...
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How can I figure out what files in AppData\Local\Temp I can delete safely?
My AppData\Local\Temp occupies 200GB, but cleanmgr.exe says
Temporary Files: 1.16MB
Why is there the difference?
How can I figure out what files in the folder I can delete safely?
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WinSxS filling so fast that DISM cleanup cannot operate
I have a Windows 10 machine that is seeing the WinSxS folder fill up so quickly that DISM cannot run, and c: shows 0 bytes free. The machine also has a D: with 30 GB+ free space, so I have tried ...
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Disk cleanup doesn't work on Windows 8.1
When I am trying to clean the 2.53 GB of old "Windows Updates" by pressing "OK" in
and then re-open the clean up window, all those old updates are still there.
I ran
Dism /Online /...
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Can I delete MEMORY.DMP file from my laptop
I have HP laptop with Windows 10. I have seen there is a file in C:\Windows folder MEMORY.DMP with size almost 7.33GB.
Can I delete this file permanently from my laptop ? or will it create any problem ...
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I have completely wiped out my SSD, how do I install new OS? [duplicate]
I had dual boot with Windows 11 and Kali. I have completely wiped out the SSD & as I wanted to start fresh. But as I turn on the computer it says
"Boot Media not found (032) Please install an ...
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Why doesn't Disk Cleanup clean `%temp%` or `c:\windows\temp`?
"Back in the day" it was good to be in the habit of periodically deleting the temp files created in c:\tmp by Windows and other software, or else you'd risk filling up your fancy 40MB hard ...
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Used Disk Cleanup, now my Win7 won't boot
I have a Windows7 machine (I know it's old, it's running some legacy stuff). It was running out of disk space, so I used its Disk Cleanup tool to clean up some old files. As a result, it stopped ...
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Moving Roaming folder
My C: is always full and the main reason is because of the Roaming folder, I see people on the Internet move it to another drive to save space. Is it really safe to do this? How to move it, I always ...
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Windows update cleanup not deleting on windows 8.1
I have a 111GB SSD. Out of that, I had about 500MB free.
I have moved all the applications that I can to other drives, deleted temp files and have been over AppData folder. From AppData I'd guess it's ...
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How to clean unnecesary files or programs on linux (mainly /usr/lib)?
As you can see my hard drive is getting full, I want to clean some old programs but I want to discover who uses /usr/lib because is quite big ! Thanks
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Is it normal that running a "wipe free disk space" utility finishes quicker the more times it's used?
I used cipher /w:C to wipe the free disk space on my C drive. The first time I did it, it took say 2 days. Then two days later I used it, and it took 1.5 days. Then again I used it and it took 1 day. ...
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Deleting Windows.old in Windows10 by way of the System Cleanup, less than half of the space expected to be released was
My Windows.old folder was ~26GB. Rather than directly deleting it, I used Windows disk cleanup (CleanMgr.exe) to Cleanup past Windows installations - also showing that it would free 26GB. After doing ...
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add space to /dev/sda1 kali linux
i have never done such operations on my kali linux. I want to add more disk space and I have done the following.
In Virtual Box settings I have added more space.
Done
This has added more space on ...
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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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Disk cleanup stuck on Windows Update
Whenever do Windows update cleanup in disk cleanup, the disk cleanup utility freezes up while that task (Windows Update cleanup) is running. Task Manager shows low resource usage. How can I fix 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. There is no option in the Files to delete: section about removing ...
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Huge 50GB+ kernel dump files being generated in temp
These folders/files keep appearing and I keep having to delete them. They are constantly sucking away all my storage space - what's going on?
Tried opening in Event Viewer & nothing shows up:
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Avoid leaving personal data when you quit your job
I'm starting working on a new job soon and will be given a corporate laptop. Besides work projects, there will be some my personal data footprint like logged in email, messengers, personal documents ...
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Is there any advantage to manually deleting temp folders vs using the Windows Disk Cleanup tool?
I work at an IT call center, and we have a guide that directs us to empty out the following folders for hard drive cleanup:
C:\Users\ user \App Data\local\Temp
C:\Temp
C:\Windows\Temp
and then run ...
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How do I remove the Downloads option from Disk Cleanup?
In the new Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the Disk Cleanup tool (yes, I know, soon to be deprecated) has a new option to delete one's Downloads folder, in addition to the other options for cleanup.
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EMTEC 32gb flash drive
I have work pictures and videos on this and now when I go to use it it says to reformat it. I dont know if I could recreate the data again:( Prior to Windows 10, I was able to do a disk clean and I ...
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Cipher /w:Foldername Usage Vs Drive utilization
I have 300 GB Filestream folder.
Below is the exact command I ran:
cipher /w:M:\Tech\Database_FS\
I am trying to use Cipher /w to wipe off any unused space in the above folder. Instead of cleaning ...
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prevent cleanmgr.exe from deleting tmp files
I'm running an R shiny app locally on my Windows machine that auto-runs every day using a batch file. I recently ran into an issue lately where the R tmp directory /tmp/RtmpXXXXX is removed and the ...
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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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Unaccounted for space on SSD
I have a fairly new install of Windows 7SP1 and applications that hadn't changed much on a 500Gb (ok, 465Gb) SSD. All told, these used about 270Gb. The disk is a Samsung 850 EVO SSD, 500Gb purchased ...
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why is ntfswipe writing random values to undelete data?
was about to archive a harddrive as it came from the shop before adding my own OS on it, and given that it was a pre-used demo-machine bought at a discount, the harddrive was probably not clean behind-...
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Cleaning up File-share server
I've been trying to make a PowerShell script that lists all files and folders, their created date and last accessed date, size in MB, and if possible the last person that accessed it, with an export ...
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How does Disk Cleanup determine whether an old Windows installation exists?
How does the Disk Cleanup utility determine whether there is an old Windows installation present? I notice that just creating a Windows.old directory with a file inside doesn't cause it to detect the ...
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Can I safely delete folder $GetCurrent in Windows 10?
I have Windows 10 Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.48). And just noticed that there is a folder in the root of C:\ drive:
C:\$GetCurrent
With subfolders:
Logs
media
SafeOS
The total size of folder is ...
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Windows Disk Cleanup pretends to delete Windows Update files over and over
My C: drive has less than 1 GB free.
I want to recover some of it so I run [Disk Cleanup] on it, then
click [Clean up system files] and authorize it. It takes
minutes to finally show a list of ...
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Semantics of "Implies" on command line switches
Silly question: I thought I knew what an implication was, until looking into this. I'd like to confirm the definition of implied in the context of Windows command prompt switches. For example:
If ...
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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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Large amount of space on C drive (system volume information folder) used by files with .BLOB extension in Windows 10
I need clean up my C drive. I found system volume information folder size is 66 GB. That contains many folders and files with BLOB extension in this path:
C:\system volume information\FileProtector\...
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How can I fix computer that won’t even boot up
I just had to update my drivers and clean my disk due to high disk usage, I went to reset and now my screen just stays plane black, it’ll change to a white screen for a split second every once in ...
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How does Disk cleanup compute “temporary files” in Windows 10?
I have encountered the following situation while removing temporary files using Disk Cleanup:
I ran Disk Cleanup and obtained a big estimation for Temporary files ( > 15GB)
Using this answer, I have ...
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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\ ?
I have paid wifi services off, yet this directory is still using 500 Megs of my precious disk space (I only have ...
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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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Windows 8.1 Blue Screen Clearing Temporary Files with Disk Cleanup
Every time I run Disk Cleanup as an admin (therefore deleting system files) and check the Temporary Files box it finishes fine but when I restart the computer it blue screens says Boot critical file ...
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why do I find registry problems and unnecessary files after Windows 10 reset and might they cause further problems?
My laptop has two drives inside: an SSD where I put the operative systems (WIndows 10 x64 and Linux in dual boot) and a hard disk which I use for media storage and installing most of softwares.
I did ...
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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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