Add data types to hard drive cleaning

Hard drive cleaning helps in tracking
trash on the system. Unfortunately, the
functionality is restricted to predefi ned
fi le types.

You can add more data types
for this function to clean out. For this,
right click a free place on the desktop
and select ‘New | Shortcut’. Enter the
following command in the ‘Item location’
input field:
C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
/c cleanmgr /sageset:4711 &
cleanmgr /sagerun:4711
and confi rm with ‘Next’. On the second
page, define a name for the new link

such as ‘Hard drive cleaning selection’.
Then click ‘Finish’. If you use this link to
run the Disk Cleanup utility in the future,
you will see more entries such as ‘Old
CHKDSK fi les’, ‘Setup log fi les’, ‘System
error memory dump files’ and ‘Log files
for Windows Upgrades’ for selection.
The command behind this link makes
Windows call up the hard drive cleaning
utility ‘cleanmgr.exe’ twice, with diff erent
start options. First with ‘/sageset’ and
then with ‘sagerun’. The number after the
start options must always be identical
and must be between 1 and 65535.
The option ‘sageset’ results in

Additional options for cleaning up disk space can

be revealed.

The option ‘sageset’ results in
Windows opening the ‘Settings for
cleaning the hard drive’ dialog box in
which the drive cleaning settings can be
configured. The system then saves this
confi guration in the registry under the
specifi ed number. The option ‘/sagerun’
then executes the confi guration saved
under the specified number.