Windows 10: Open and Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 10

No, you need to run it as admin. The button bellow is a dead giveaway, it says: "Clean up system files."
If you run it as admin, you will not see it, then again, you can just click on the button to continue.

 

I can delete the "$GetCurrent" folder on my C:\ ??? I have look inside and apparently there's a "media" folder whit inside somethings like a windows dvd..... also there's a "log" folder and there's a log of an installation maked about month of September 2016........

All folder have a size of about 4GB...... what's ?

 

This is what happens when i paste the command in to Powershell in an elevated state:

C:\WINDOWS\system32> %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 "&" Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe : The module '%SystemRoot%' could not be loaded. For more information, run
'Import-Module %SystemRoot%'.
At line:1 char:1
+ %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 "&" Cleanmgr ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotAutoLoadModule

 

Hello Danny, *Smile

You'll need to run the command in an elevated command prompt instead of PowerShell.

 

In Audit mode, if I write the cleanmgr /sageset:65535 /sagerun:65535 command instead of the %SystemRoot%\system32\cleanmgr /sageset:65535 /sagerun:65535 command from the elevated Command Prompt, would I get to the same thing?

Thanks

Bye

 

Hello Balubeto, *Smile

Yes, that's correct. It'll be for the same.

 

Hi Brink, I ran Disk cleanup, it found about 3 GB of Windows updates backup files. I checked the option to delete those files. After about 15 minutes the process ended and Disk cleanup closed. There was no message of any kind. I rebooted the laptop and after reboot I have the same 812GB of available space as I had before running Disk cleanup. I looked at the uninstallers available for Windows updates and I can tell that a couple were removed. Remember, I have a new laptop and not many updates appear in the list. I also ran Disk cleanup again and the 3GB dont appear anymore.

Is there an explanation? Can you figure out anything to make sense of this?

Bo

 

Hello Bo, *Smile

You might check to see if the options in the tutorial below may be able to help find where the space is at, and possibly free up some more space.

*Arrow Free Up Drive Space in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

 

Theres really very little space to free up. What i cant figure is why I didnt gain any free space after supposedly cleaning 3GB of Windows updates backups. Is it possible that the amount detected by Disk cleaner was just wrong, and it cleaned up some space but a lot less? Right now I have about same free space I had immediately before updating to 15063.540. If that update took about 800MB of space, then probably thats about what Disk cleanup actually free up for me. This is no big deal and wont break my head pondering about it but like to make sense of it if possible. Thanks, Brink. *Smile

Bo

 

I must admit that I'm not sure why the drive didn't show the regained space.

You might use the tutorial below to see how much space is being used by the Component Store to see if it's still large.

*Arrow Analyze Component Store (WinSxS folder) in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

If it is, then you could use Option 3 below to clean it to see if the space actually returns afterwards.

*Arrow Clean Up Component Store (WinSxS folder) in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

 

Thanks, Brink.*Smile

Bo

 

hello


I have this mysterious issue after updating to





Result of "cleanmgr.exe /LOWDISK"









No way to delete this 3.70GB temporary Internet files which appears only in normal user mode
CCleaner do not show this 3.70Gb also
it look like a false report of cleanmgr

 

Hello Daniel, *Smile

How does it look after manually clearing your browsing history?

 

I have manually cleared IE and Edge cache for all users => no change

I was playing with sysprep (here) and after restart, it become clean
not sure what I did, but it is solved