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(Click to enlarge.) For a complete cleaning job, take a look at CCleaner. Use a program like CCCleaner to throughly clean your system. A utility designed just for thoroughly cleaning your system can do the job a lot better. Use a Dedicated System Cleanup Tool: Sometimes your manual cleanup efforts don’t catch all the stray items that can be wasting disk space. Select the program or programs you want to uninstall, and click the Uninstall button at the top.Īlso, if you have more than one video player or music player or other types of duplicate applications, get rid of the dupes. To get rid of those unnecessary applications, such as old games or tax software good for only one year, go to the Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs and Features. Uninstall Unnecessary Applications: At one point or another most of us have installed programs we thought we would use, or just wanted to try, but ultimately don’t need. Here are some other areas to consider for cleanup.

Then go into Task Scheduler as mentioned above ( Start > Task Scheduler > Create Basic Task), and when you get to the Scheduled Task program screen, enter /sagerun:1 in the arguments (in addition to “cleanmgr.exe” for the filename) to apply the cleanup settings.

This will create a Registry key to save these cleanup settings, and also run Disk Cleanup right now.

Select the types of files you always want to delete and press OK.

Type cleanmgr.exe /sageset:1 to open the Disk Cleanup settings.

Go to the Start menu, enter cmd in the search box, and press Enter to open the Command Prompt.If you want to run Disk Cleanup in the background without your supervision, you can create a scheduled task to do this using the command line:

That method runs Disk Cleanup at a set time but still requires your input. Follow the wizard to enter a description and set a daily/weekly/other schedule, then type cleanmgr.exe in the Filename box to schedule it. Under the Actions menu, select Create Basic Task. Click the Start button, type Task Scheduler in the search form, and press Enter.