Disk cleanup suggestions manual or in a program

I'll start on this today with the .bat program.

RoWin7 said:

Unless the whole computer dies, mobo for instance, then you have an extra HD that's no good in any machine. that's why I have multiple machines all running the same OS and similar programs.

Yes I have multiples here too. All old stuff but serviceable. The big advantage to me is being able to
pull off an HD for clone backup and use one of the others with Ol' Norton ghost for the long time it takes to complete.

RolandJS said:

Well, I substitute teach during the week in 3 ISDs :) I vacuum the dust bunnies probably 3-4 times yearly. mostly quarterly.

Ok, OP, back to you :)
Quoting a piece of your first post in this thread: "I'm wondering if in Win7 there is a series if suggestions to clean out the deadwood without removing actual in-use programs: things like the AppData and Roaming areas which seem to contain a lot of temp files." One answer: One thing I've been doing for some time: after making shortcuts to appdata local temp directory, windows temp directory, I use those shortcuts to goto said directories and delete everything found therein, mostly just before making image backups.

I didn't know how safe any of that is but I'll be looking to do that. The Everything file search program
has several options to install, the default is the App/Roaming whatevs folder area. I suppose it has advantage of displaying all the unneeded first?

In order I'm running chkdsk /f, chkdsk/ r and will run the disk cleanup extended following that,then Glary and TFC.


The link to Disk Cleanup Extened has a lot of tools and diagnostic info in it.
An impressive help file. I don't know how I could get through everything, so will stick with
the cleaners for now. TFC is at Bleeeping Computer, another site I'm slightly familiar with.
The name OldTimer I know from from someplace-- I've seen it in the Major Geeks virus cleaners
suite but that was quite a long time back. So many of those things have become dated and the new
ones (freeware) I'm not aware of for lack of need.

Paul Black said:

Hi loninappleton, STOP!!!

Too late. :-/


And I think I did one out of order. Oh well, a scratch disk. I'll report back on what happened if anything.