Disk Cleanup : Extended

How to Use Extended Disk Cleanup in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8​

This will show you how to access and run the Extended Disk Cleanup function in Windows, allowing you to clean up more HDD space for you to use.

   Note

This must be done in an elevated command window to complete.

Let's get started!

1) In the Windows 7 start menu search box type "cmd" (without the quotes) right click the entry and select "Run As Administrator" then enter your user credentials for the UAC prompt and click yes to open the command window.


2) In the command window that opens type the command below and hit enter.

Be advised: the command window must be left open while the cleanup is carried out.

%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

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3) Now you will see the Disk Cleanup Settings window with more options available to you, select the ones you want to clean up then click ok; wait for the search and then the cleanup and then you're done.



To add a shortcut to the desktop.

   Note

This .bat file was created by CarlTR6 credit for this goes to him!

1) In the Windows start menu search box type "notepad" (without the quotes) right click the entry and choose Run as Administrator then enter your user credentials in the UAC prompt and click yes to open notepad.


2) In notepad type the code below then in the upper left of notepad at File select "Save as" name the file anything you want but it must have the .bat extension then browse to C:/Windows/System32 and click Save, then back at "File" click "Exit" to close notepad.

 cd C:\windows\system32 
%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

3) Now click an empty spot on the desktop and click, "New, Shortcut" in the "Create Shortcut" window browse to C:\Windows\System32\<your file name.bat> and click ok, then in the next window click next, then for the last "Choose Name" window name the shortcut whatever you want (I chose something clever, "Clean") then click "Finish" to add the shortcut to the desktop, you're done.





Enjoy!

Related Tutorials

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• Disk Cleanup - Open and Use
• Disk Cleanup - Add or Remove from Drive Properties
• Disk Check
• How to Add Disk Cleanup to Context Menu in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
• How to Add "Extended Disk Cleanup" to Desktop Context Menu in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How Use the Windows 7 SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool to Recover Lost Disk Space
• How to Free Up and Recover Hard Drive Space in Windows 7

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep I don't use this anymore no need disk space is cheap now days
If someone really needs the little space it might find it is past time to get a larger ssd or hdd

 

[Space Cowboy]

Auto Run In Task Scheduler

Hi Everyone,

If I setup a task to run the VBS file at a certain time, every day, How can I make the task hit ok and just run it minimized?

I'm guessing I need to add a few extra commands?

Thank You !!

 

[Paul Black]

Good evening,

I know this is an old thread now but I have a question please about Windows 7: Disk Cleanup : Extended.

Excellent by the way Bare Foot Kid .

I want to include this and run it in a batch file at the end of other stuff that is done (I have condensed the code below to just include the Disk Cleanup : Extended portion).

It does actually work fine but I have to press "OK" for it to continue or "Cancel" to not.

How can I adapt the script below so it automatically presses the "OK" for me in the script please?

I don't want the popup box to appear I just want it to do it.

I have tried /Q at the end, I have also tried Click [OK] but to no avail.

I have also tried all of the following: (with the cd C:\windows\system32 first obviously)

C:\Windows\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
Shell ("%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535")
Shell C:\Windows\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
Shell "C:\Windows\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535"
Shell ("C:\Windows\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535")

Unfortunately on the occasions when Shell is included it gives me an error saying:
'Shell' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Anyway, here is the batch file script I have:

echo off
echo.
echo [12] Running extended cleanup...
cd C:\windows\system32 
%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
echo. & echo This process completed successfully. & echo. & pause & cls
exit

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Brink]

Hello Paul,

If you like, you could use the same command below from Option Two below. The command needs to "Run as administrator" (elevated).

cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

:ar: Open and Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

[Paul Black]

Thanks for the reply Brink, it is appreciated.

Unfortunately this still requires me to click the OK button to continue, which is what I want to bypass!
I just want it to run without me having to do this.

Everything else runs without problems. I am using DISM commands etc before hand and I just want to tidy up after the batch file has completed (that is why I want to execute this as the last thing in the batch file).

As you will see from my code, it will allow it to run to completion (so there are no interuptions to it running) before anything can be done, i.e. Pause = Press any key to continue.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Brink]

You could use the method below to create an elevated shortcut of it to run elevated without getting a UAC prompt.

:ar: Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

[Paul Black]

Thanks again Brink for the reply.

I don't have the UAC enabled so that is not a problem.
I need to run it from WITHIN my batch script that I posted and for it to ignore the popup asking me to click OK or Cancel.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Brink]

Ah, you want it to run silently.

I'm not aware of a way to do so.

 

[Paul Black]

OK, thanks anyway Brink for your time and help with this, it is very much appreciated .

 

[Paul Black]

I think I have worked out how to do it, sort of (well I don't have to click OK or Cancel)!

echo off
echo.
echo [12] Running extended cleanup...
cd C:\windows\system32 
[B][COLOR=red]Start[/COLOR][/B] %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
echo. & echo This process completed successfully. & echo. & pause & cls
exit

This also seems to work:

echo off
echo.
echo [12] Running extended cleanup...
cd C:\windows\system32 
[B][COLOR=red]Start[/COLOR][/B] Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
echo. & echo This process completed successfully. & echo. & pause & cls
exit

If anyone knows if this is WRONG then please let me know.

The only problem appears to be is at the end of the cleanup process that there is an extra (so I have 2) disk cleanup box that appears (but goes off in about 3 seconds).
The first box says "Scanning: whatever" for example and the second box says "Cleaning: whatever".

Any ideas please?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

I have worked it out!

The clicking of the OK button obviously invokes the program to start, hence using Start at the beginning of the command.

The second box only appears because I moved the first box to another location on the screen.

I ran the command from the desktop shortcut that I had created a long time ago (and NOT from inside the batch file itself) leaving the normal position of the box in the middle of the screen and I didn't get a second box appear.

I then ran the command again from the desktop shortcut that I had created a long time ago (and NOT from inside the batch file itself) but this time moving the normal position of the box in the middle of the screen and I DID get a second box appear.

This means that there are 2 boxes generated when the command is run, the 1st box saying Scanning: whatever and the 2nd box saying Cleaning: whatever. The 2nd box is exactly mirrored on top of the 1st box.

I then tested BOTH these scenarios above by running it from WITHIN the Batch file and got EXACTLY the SAME results.

I hope this will help anyone trying to do this in the future.

Brink,

Out of the two code options I posted above, is there one that is better to use than the other one please?

 

[Brink]

Great news Paul. Thank you for sharing your findings.

 

[Paul Black]

Thanks Brink,

I just hope it can help someone in the future.
After all, we are all trying to achieve our individual goals.
This thread is quite informative, especially with the links that you posted as well.
Thanks again for your help .

 

[Paul Black]

Extended Disk Cleanup batch file [direct download] => View attachment Extended_Disk_Cleanup_v1.bat

The program script allows the user to:

[1] Abort the program in case they double-clicked the .bat file accidentally.
[2] Select [check] the items that they want cleaned.

I hope you find this useful!

 

[Brink]

Thank you for sharing Paul.

 

[Paul Black]

Hi Brink,

Thank you for sharing Paul.

Not a problem at all, I am glad that I could make this available for other members to benefit from!