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Disk Cleanup is a built-in tool in Windows to delete temporary files that are safe to delete.

Disk Cleanup is a built-in tool in Windows to delete temporary files that are safe to delete.

Disk Cleanup was introduced in Windows 2000 and is also available in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Disk Cleanup can be started in any of the following ways.

  1. by menu Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup
  2. from the commandline as cleanmgr.exe.

  3. from a drive's Properties (started from the drive's context menu):

    Starting Disk Cleanup from a drive's context menu/Properties

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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 full so I want to clean it up. I noticed the while…
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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 quite understand why deleting files should be such an…
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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 almost 4GB. Can I safely delete this folder to…
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Why is "Windows Update Cleanup" missing from my Disk Cleanup?

I'm trying to get rid of the excessive files inside the winsxs folder. However, there is no "Windows Update Cleanup" option in my Disk Cleanup dialog. I am told that installing this hotfix enables the option. After installing the hotfix, there is…
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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 to save disk space". Is it also reasonable to…
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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 mounted at /space. From there, I will make…
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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 high to me. I would imagine the OS would take up,…
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cleanup C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp\PendingDeletes and PendingRenames

Both, the PendingDeletes and the PendingRenames folder within the windows temp folder are about 1GB in size. Is there any save way to empty or delete those folders? C:\Windows\WinSxS >10GB C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp\PendingDeletes…
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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 try delete such files manually, but for this I need…
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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 necessary or if I could just delete the existing…
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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 64 GB on Surface Pro 3).
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7z file manager crashed and left temp files behind

So I did a drag&drop extraction from 7z (windows), which creates temporary files (this was on purpose, as I was extracting to a network share.) Unfortunately, 7z crashed during this process and 7GB of temporary files were left behind on my disk. I…
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hdparm vs /dev/zero in hdd erase

So, what is more secure and why? hdparm --security-erase-enhanced NULL /dev/sdX or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
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Turn off the Desktop Cleanup Wizard popup forever

Every one in a while, I get a notification asking me if I want to remove unused icons from the Windows XP desktop. How can I turn off this notification forever?
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Why should we wipe disks multiple times?

There exists various ways of destroying the data on a disk. Even simple wipes differ, some disk utilities give these options: Format (does not actually wipe) Wipe 1 time with zero Wipe 1 time with random bits Wipe 7 times with zero / random…
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