How to clean your computer
with Disk Cleanup.
Disk Cleanup will perform all actions to clean unnecessary files from your
computer.
Simple Way:
1. Click on the Start button.
2. Click Run
3. In the Open: input box, type in cleanmgr
4. Click the OK button.
5. Disk Cleanup will scan your disk to calculate how much disk space you can
free up.
6. Wait a few moments for it to complete scanning.
7. Once done, select the items that you want Disk Cleanup to delete under Files to
Delete:
8. After you have selected the items that you want deleted, click OK.
9. Click Yes to confirm that you want to perform these actions.
More Advanced Way:
by Greg Shultz at
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6168868.html
If you've ever run the Windows XP's Disk Cleanup utility, you probably
discovered that your temporary files occupy a significant amount of space.
You might select the Temporary Files check box in order to allow the Disk
Cleanup utility to delete the files in the Temp folder, but the Disk Cleanup
utility will not remove all of the files.
The reason for this oddity is that the
configuration for the Disk Cleanup utility does not allow deletion of files
accessed in the last seven days.
By altering the LastAccess value in the registry, you can configure
the Disk Cleanup utility to delete all the files in the Temp folder
regardless of the last accessed date. Here's how:
1. Launch the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
2. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\VolumeCaches\Temporary Files
3. Locate and double-click the LastAccess value.
4. When you see the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, change the Value Data
setting from 7 to 0 and click OK.
5. To complete the operation, close the Registry Editor and restart Windows
XP.
Changing the value to 0 will force the Disk Cleanup utility to delete all
the files in the Temp folder every time that you select the Temporary Files
check box.
Notes: Since editing the registry is risky, be sure you have a verified
backup before saving any changes. This tip applies to both Windows XP Home
and Windows XP Professional.
NOTE: If at any time you suspect a
virus, go to
http://housecall.trendmicro.com to do an online virus scan.
If you are unable to do any of the above steps, reboot, keep pressing F8
- but don't hold after it reboots, pick Safe Mode with Networking
from the menu and try from there.
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