Set up “Disk Cleanup” to run in “Extended Mode”
Here’s how Disk Cleanup comes from MS:
%windir%system32cleanmgr.exe
When run like this, its Cleanup is very limited.
Create the above shortcut on your desktop and then you can modify it, so that it becomes “Extended Disk Cleanup”.
Step one is to right click on the shortcut, select properties and then change/edit the syntax of the shortcut to read:
%SystemRoot%System32Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65
Save it!
Then you need to run the shortcut and select everything BUT ‘Setup.log’, because you’ll need that if you ever intend to uninstall any programs.
On that first run, you’re only setting up how you want Disk Cleanup to run, but nothing will be deleted.
Now right click on the shortcut again, select Properties, and again change/edit it to read:
%SystemRoot%System32Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sagerun:65
Save it!
Now when you run the shortcut, everything that you selected in the previous operation, will be deleted. At this point you have a Shortcut to “Extended Disk Cleanup” on your desktop. The shortcut can be copied to the STARTUP folder, so it runs on every boot-up of the computer.
That works good, for those who either can-not or will-not do their own HD maintenance. I set that up for my elderly customers, who can never remember to run their own Maintenance.
There are other programs, like Windows Utilities (WinUtils), that do a more thorough job of finding and removing junk, but they have to be run manually, and they don’t come for FREE with Windows.
Cheers mates!
The Doctor 😎
