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Disk Cleanup
The Disk Cleanup feature is a tune-up activity that finds and removes invalid and unwanted junk files from the hard disk drive. Disk
Cleanup deletes these files freeing up space that can be used for other applications and helps improving system performance. The
Disk Cleanup feature also deletes temporary files, Internet cache files, improper shortcut files, garbage name files & empty folders.
Customizing Disk Cleanup
Before you execute Disk Cleanup, it can be customized to perform as per your needs. To customize Disk Cleanup, please perform
the following steps:
1. Click Cleanup -> Disk Cleanup.
2. Click Options button.
3. The Disk Cleanup Options screen opens. Each item in the list is preceded by a checkbox. By default all items are
checked in the list.
4. Uncheck the items that need to be skipped by Disk Cleanup feature.
5. Click Apply to save the new settings; click Close to exit without saving the settings.
How to Perform Disk Cleanup
To execute Disk Cleanup, please perform the following steps:
1. Click Cleanup -> Disk Cleanup.
2. Click Options if you wish to customize Disk Cleanup as mentioned earlier.
3. Click Start to populate the list with file locations and its junk category.
4. You can click Stop to halt the entries being added to the list.
5. Each file location will be preceded by a checkbox. By default all file locations are checked. Uncheck the locations that
need to be skipped by Disk Cleanup.
Figure 6-3: Performing Disk Clean Up
6. There are four other fields which display the following information:
• Files Found: The total number of files found by Disk Cleanup.
• Total Size: The size of the total number of files found by Disk Cleanup.
• Files Selected: The number of files selected for deletion.
• Selected File Size: The size of the number of files selected for deletion.
7. Click Remove Files to remove the files. Click Close to exit Disk Cleanup.