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Description |
Compress System Disk
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WARNING : THIS COMPRESSES YOUR DISK, it does not clean intermediate compressed files. THIS SLOWS YOUR FILE SYSTEM DOWN. Consult with an admin before using or extensively research this option before using. Turning this off has caused issues before. It's a one way street generally.
Save storage space by allowing Windows to compress the contents of your drive . You will be able to access your files as normal , and the compression will be automatic and transparent to you . Depending on how much into is on your drive, compression may take a while. If you need to decompress the drive or any Folders at a later date you can do so with Windows File Explorer.
@C:\Program Files\rempl\strgsnsaddons.dll,-1009 |
BranchCache
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Files created by BranchCache service for caching data.
BranchCache is a wide area network (WAN) bandwidth optimization
technology that is included in some editions of the Windows Server
2012 and Windows 8 operating systems, as well as in some editions of
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. To optimize WAN bandwidth when
users access content on remote servers, BranchCache copies content
from your main office or hosted cloud content servers and caches the
content at branch office locations, allowing client computers at
branch offices to access the content locally rather than over the
WAN.
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File History Files |
File History saves copies of your files so you can get them back if
they're lost or damaged. It automatically backs up files in the
background and lets you restore them from a simple, time-based
interface. |
| DirectX Shader Cache |
Clean up files created by the
graphics system which can speed up application load time and improve
responsiveness. They will be re-generated as needed. |
| Downloads |
Warning: These are files in your personal Downloads folder.
It's important to understand that the "Downloads" option is unchecked by default and it's a helpful feature to those that use downloads folder for temporary files. On the other hand, if you use it as a place to store needed files, make sure the option is unchecked or you will lose the content stored in the folder.
Folder:C:\Users\{UserName}\Downloads
File List:*.*
@C:\WINDOWS\System32\DATACLEN.DLL, -1045 |
| Hello Face Remove | Warning: Using this option seems to disable Windows Hello
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/Hello-Face-stopped-working-after-a-disk-cleanup/td-p/7028729
When you uninstall the optional Windows Hello Face component. Signing in to Windows using facial recognition might not work. You'll still be able to log in with your Windows Hello PIN or a username and password combination. To tum this back on in the future, go to Settings, search for Add an optional feature, select Add a feature, and then select Windows Hello Face.
@C:\Program Files\rempl\strgsnsaddons.dll,-1029 |
| Language Pack Files |
Remove unused language resource files, including keyboards, speech inputs, etc. |
| Mixed Reality |
Removes Mixed Reality viewer files.
@C:\Program Files\rempl\strgsnsaddons.dll,-1023 |
| OneDrive File Remove |
Removes temporary Onedrive offline files in Onedrive folders marked as "online-only" to free up disk space.
Note: You can always explicitly set a folder as 'Always keep offline' (even if you haven't used those files in a long time) and it won't affect those folders.
@C:\Program Files\rempl\strgsnsaddons.dll,-1013 |
| Downloaded Files |
Duplicate of Downloads option
@C:\Program Files\rempl\strgsnsaddons.dll,-101 |
| Delete all System Restore Points |
This will deleting all previous restore points. Restore points allow you to go back to a previous install state. It can be risky to remove all restore points. If you feel confident, and need the space. Then after option, create a restore point afterwards immediately.
Note: You can also save space by deleting all previous restore points except for the last one. To do that, run Disk Cleanup and after it scans your drive, select the More Options tab. Then under the System Restore and Shadow Copies section click Clean up and then the verification message |
| Language Pack |
Remove unused language resource files, including keyboards, speech inputs, etc. |
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Old ChkDsk Files |
Check Disk (chkdsk) is a command line that you use to recover files from
your hard disk, generally caused by surface errors due to aging, bumping
and smoke, that cause bad sectors (lost data) to appear. Chkdsk recovers
what it can of these sectors in files which was written over the bad
sector into files ending in .CHK.
You can open and read the contents using Notepad or even better
Notepad++. Often the contents are not worth keeping but they can be.
Chkdsk files are indicative that a drive is starting to fail. If new bad
sectors continue to appear you should replace the drive or you risk
losing all your files.
"FileList"="*.CHK"
"Folder"="?:\\FOUND.000|?:\\FOUND.001|?:\\FOUND.002|?:\\FOUND.003|?:\\FOUND.004|?:\\FOUND.005|
?:\\FOUND.006|?:\\FOUND.007|?:\\FOUND.008|?:\\FOUND.009" |
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Delivery Optimization Files |
Delivery optimization files are files that were previously downloaded to
your computer and can be deleted if currently unused by the Delivery
Optimization service.
Windows Update Delivery Optimization lets you get Windows updates and
Windows Store apps from sources in addition to Microsoft. This can help
you get updates and apps more quickly if you have a limited or
unreliable Internet connection. And if you own more than one PC, it can
reduce the amount of Internet bandwidth needed to keep all of your PCs
up-to-date. Delivery Optimization also sends updates and apps from your
PC to other PCs on your local network or PCs on the Internet.
@C:\WINDOWS\system32\domgmt.dll |
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Content Indexer Cleaner |
The Windows search indexer is constantly running in the background to
make file searches as quick as possible.
"Folder"="?:\\Catalog.wci"
File List:*.* |
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Temporary Setup Files |
These files should no longer be needed. They were originally created by
a setup program that is no longer running.
Located in directory C:\\Windows\\msdownld.tmp|?:\\msdownld.tmp
"FileList"="*.tmp"
@C:\WINDOWS\system32\setupcln.dll, -1001 |
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Download Program Files |
Downloaded Program Files are ActiveX controls and Java applets
downloaded automatically from the Internet with you view certain pages.
They are temporarily stored in the Downloaded Program Files folder on
your hard disk.
@C:\Windows\System32\occache.dll,- 1071 |
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Temporary Internet Files |
The Temporary Internet Files folder contains webpages stored on your
hard disk for quick viewing. Your personalized settings for webpages
will be left intact. |
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Offline Web Pages |
Offline pages are webpages that are stored on your computer so you can
view them without being connected to the Internet. If you delete these
pages now, you can still view your favorites offline later by
synchronizing then. Your personalized settings for webpages will be left
intact. |
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Debug Dump Files |
Files created by Windows. |
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Recycle Bin |
The Recycle Bin contains files you have deleted from your computer. |
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Setup Log Files |
Files created by Windows.
"FileList"="setup*.log|setup*.old|setuplog.txt|winnt32.log"
"Folder"="%WINDIR%" |
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System Error Memory Dump Files |
Remove system error memory dump files. |
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System Error Minidump Files |
Remove system error minidump files. |
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Temporary Files |
Programs sometimes stores temporary information in the TEMP folder.
Before a program closes, it usually deleted this information. You can
safely delete temporary files that have not been modified in over a
week.
Folder:C:\Users\Markus\AppData \Local\Temp|C:\WINDOWS\Temp|C:\WINDOWS\Logs|C:\WINDOWS\System32\LogFiles
File List:*.* |
Temporary Sync Files |
Remove Windows Media Sync files.
You can use Windows Media Player to copy music, videos, and pictures
from your Player Library to a portable device, such as a compatible MP3
player. This process is called syncing.
These are temp files in caches create in this process which are delete
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Thumbnails |
Windows keeps a copy of all your picture, video, and document thumbnails
so they can be displayed quickly when you open a folder. If you delete
these thumbnails, they will be automatically recreated as needed. |
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User File Versions |
Windows stores file versions temporarily on this disk before copying
them to the designated File History disk. If you delete these files, you
will lose some file history.
File History is Windows 10’s main backup tool, originally introduced in
Windows 8. Despite the name, File History isn’t just a way to restore
previous versions of files–it’s a fully-featured backup tool, it's
suppose to be a clone of Apple Time Machine. |
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Windows Error Report Files (4 types) |
Files used for Windows Error Reporting (WER). These
are logs of errors (program crashes mostly) that were reported to
Microsoft by the Windows Error Reporting service. |
