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The ai disk cleanup tag on WindowsForum.com covers the practical limits of using local AI models to audit and reclaim space on Windows 11 drives. A tagged discussion walks through an experiment where an AI assistant reviewed a nearly full SSD, recommended roughly 17GB of cleanup, yet omitted larger items such as the Recycle Bin, crash dumps, and the NVIDIA cache, even though it had already examined them. The recurring lesson is that locating a large file, understanding its purpose, and recommending its removal are separate jobs, and that keeping the assistant read-only avoids destructive mistakes.
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    Local AI Windows 11 Disk Cleanup Misses Recycle Bin, Crash Dumps and NVIDIA Cache

    A local AI model asked to audit a nearly full Windows 11 SSD recommended roughly 17GB of cleanup—but left three much larger discoveries out of its final answer. The revealing part was not that it failed to find the files. According to XDA’s Abhinav Raj, it had already examined them. The...