Thread: How to clean up Windows in one click

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I'M NOT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY IF THIS TURNS YOUR PC INTO A FIREBALL OR ANYTHING

OK, I'm getting tired of people recommending clean up software to each other. Clean up software is often bloated, full of crap & won't clean everything. So I have made this tutorial to show you how to make a file you click & it does it all for you. No software needed. Here we go....

Create a new file using notepad & call it "cleanup.cmd"

Now it's created, right click it & press "edit".

Now copy this into it. Replace the USERNAME bits with your username -


cmdow @ /HID
@echo off
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemroot%\temp\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemroot%\prefech\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\USERNAME\cookies\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\USERNAME\local settings\temp\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\USERNAME\temporary internet files\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\USERNAME\recent\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\localservice\cookies\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\localservice\local settings\temp\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\localservice\local settings\temporary internet files\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\networkservice\cookies\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\networkservice\local settings\temp\*.*"
DEL /S /Q /F "%systemdrive%\documents and settings\networkservice\local settings\temporary internet files\*.*"
CLS
echo System Cleanup Complete =)
pause



Now save it. Whenever you want to clean your PC, just double click it & watch it do it's magic....

hmm i would like to try this but what does it do exactly, is it safe??

Originally Posted by hrci666

hmm i would like to try this but what does it do exactly, is it safe??

All the directories it lists will be emptied out when run.

It's a MSDOS batch file that empties folders, to keep it simple.

I wrote this one myself, so I'm sure it's safe.

It deletes your temporary files and your IE cache (though I personally use Firefox). Pretty useful if you need to free some disk space, but not useful enough is your purpose is to conceal your tracks.

Originally Posted by qpow2

It deletes your temporary files and your IE cache (though I personally use Firefox). Pretty useful if you need to free some disk space, but not useful enough is your purpose is to conceal your tracks.

It clears the Windows Temp folder & Prefech (I don't have Prefech on my PC, so I didn't know it's address, so I couldn't add it to the list.) & other stuff. If anyone else knows where junk files build up, let me know & I'll add it to the list.

hey this is a pretty kool trick..im gonna try it out than get back to ya on it..thx bro

Just the dos commands but works great

Looks pretty good, I'll test it out :)

Does anyone know any other directories where crap bulids up? If you post them then I can add them to the list.