Actually.........
You can do a pretty good job of cleaning the junk files out of your own computer, using what MS gave you for FREE.
MS programmers, in their infinite wisdom, gave us a great little junk-file remover in the form of "Disk Cleanup".
Probably less than 1% of Windows users even know it's there, but it has been for a very long time.
They also gave us the ability to run "Disk Cleanup" in an 'Extended' manner.
Here's a little shortcut you can put on your desktop, to run "Disk Cleanup" any time you want, in the
extended mode.
%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
Just copy and past the blue line into a Desktop Shortcut and you've got it!
The first time you run it, you will need to put a check in the little box to the left of each type of junk
that you want it to remove. I generally check everything but "Setup.log" files and "Office Setup files".*
*Those may be needed someday when you want to uninstall something, so leave those in place.
If there is a box that says "Compress old files", DO NOT check that box.
Extended Disk Cleanup works just as well on Windows 7/64 as it did on XP Pro/32.
On my own PC, I spent the better part of a day, going through my entire hard drive and locating all the folders where Windows and my Applications, store their .tmp files, .bak files, temporary internet files, etc.
then I put each one of those paths into a batch file that will delete the contents of every one of those folders.
Here is just a little sample from my W7Cleanup.bat program.
@Echo off
cls
del /F /S /Q "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\*.*"
Using this as a sample, you can write your own cleanup batch file to empty junk folders all through your own hard drive.
My finished batch file is almost forty lines long.
Since I run it from my Startup folder, DAILY, the junk never has a chance to build up in my hard drive.
A clean machine is a Happy Machine!
