Tips to schedule disk cleanup in Windows 7

Regular disk cleanup is a must for your Windows system to run smoothly and nicely. So here our topic of discussion is the same i.e. how to schedule a basic Disk Cleanup task to ease up or automate the process of disk cleaning.

You must be delighted to know that Windows includes some handy tools to help keep your machine operating smoothly. Disk Cleanup is one such tool that removes temporary and old, freeing up enough hard drive space for further allocation.

It’s suggested that set it up to run weekly or monthly depending on what works best for you. To schedule Disk Cleanup to run on a regular basis, first of all we need to schedule a task. For this follow the given below steps:

* Click on the Start Menu and enter task scheduler into the search box and hit Enter.

* The Task Scheduler opens and you’ll want to click on Action then select Create Basic Task.

* The ‘Create Basic Task’ Wizard comes up and from here type in a name for the task and a description then click Next.

* Now select how often you want Disk Cleanup to run…Weekly, Daily, Monthly, One Time…etc. It’s completely up to you and you might want to try out some different schedules. Let’s go with weekly option in this article.

* Since we set it up to run weekly we need to schedule it when to start, how often it should reoccur, and which day of the week to run it.

* Next under Action select Start a program…

* In the Program/script field type in cleanmgr.exe , or you can hit browse and select Disk Cleanup which is in C:\Windows|system32\cleanmgr.exe

* Under Program/script you’ll see the path to Disk Cleanup as C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe

* Then you’re shown a summary of the scheduled task and if everything looks correct click on Finish.

* For this basic setting we scheduled it for a time when we know the computer will be in use. When it’s time for the Scheduled Task to occur it will pop up and you can run it by selecting the drive to clean up.

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