Disk Cleanup Tool - Discussion

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Nice Article Ian and i would say one of the favourites in the Windows Operating System, I hope new comers to Windows take not of this very useful Article ...

A very nice article indeed. Ian, I want to know that is there any inbuilt technique to get the cleaned items back to their original destination.

Please let me know

You can preprogram disk clean up, so that the items you want cleaned can be selcted before running the program.
Find "Disk cleanup" in the start. All Programs
Right click it and select properties.
You will see this : %windir%\system32\cleanmgr.exe
Add /sageset:99 (Not a space, after cleanmgr.exe)
Apply
Now, whenever you run the progam, you will find options for the items you wish to clean.

Great article, Ian, nothing's really changed since XP on the disc cleanup. While this is a good, basic cleanup, CCleaner cleans up far more, and cleanses it beyond recovery (overwriting it up to 35 times). With the basic disc cleanup, the items can be easily retrieved, unless you've overwritten them with a download.

Why not go to Start/computer/right click on the drive you wish to clean up/properties and save all the messing about remembering what to type?

With CCleaner, you don't have to mess around, remembering what to type. You leave your basic functions checked, occasionally you may have to insert a file, but it deletes far more than your basic cleanup could ever hope for. All temp files, thumbnails, cookies, IIS log files, many, many others. And with the capability of overwriting them as many as 35 times (the Guttman method), there's nothing left for someone to find. After all, you don't simply discard your bank and financial statements without at least shredding them, or cutting them at all angles into tiny bits, do you? It's the same principle, for the same reason. To keep thieves away.

I use C Cleaner last thing every evening. I haven't actually used disc clean up in ages.

Me neither, I don't recommend that anyone who is concerned about their security, to use the built in disc cleaner. As a plus, CCleaner cannot delete critical files that your system needs to run. I even tried to clean out my external hard drive with it, the program wouldn't allow it for safety reasons. The only tool that I've not used in Windows 7 is the registry cleaner. I use Windows Live Safety Scanner for this, they have one for Vista/Windows 7 & one for XP & below. It's a Microsoft product, and creates a restore point before doing anything. I've never had a problem with that program. It also has a disc cleaner.

Does this action (overwriting it up to 35 times) shorten the life of the drive?