Comments on: Create Customize Shortcut For Running Windows Disk Cleanup

By: Barisal

Barisal — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:50:24 +0000

Thanks for this very useful topic. I've found what the exact thing (custom setting) which I couldn't find in Microsoft's page.

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:15:35 +0000

@woodsman

Hate to break the news to you buddy, but you completely missed the boat on this one. It's about customizing the settings…but since your so intelligent I'm sure I don't need hand puppets to explain it to you.

By: woodsman

woodsman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:12:55 +0000

this is stupid only and idiot would do this this is completely unnecessary
simply open start menu go to search box type in disk cleanup
when the file comes up in your search you right click on it and click create shortcut and bam you are done
THIS PERSON WHO POSTED ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS IS AND IDIOT AND MAKING THIS HARDER THAN IT NEEDS TO BE PLEASE KEEP IT SIMPLE

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:03:53 +0000

@Lipjam

Did you run a test using the same command before scheduling it to run overnight? If not, run a test and see why it's prompting you to select a drive.

By: Lipjam

Lipjam — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:50:58 +0000

I scheduled a disk cleanup on Server 2k and expected it to be done overnight but when I got in the next morning I was met with a dialog box asking me to select the drive I wished to clean? I thought this program just cleaned all drives. What's the story?

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:00:08 +0000

@Cor'e =)

MAN! What was I thinking when I wrote that tip (big time goof-up). The only bug you found was my mistake. Here's the deal:

Disk Cleanup CANNOT be run against a specific drive. As you correctly pointed out, when it runs, all drives are cleaned. The reason for selecting a drive, when setting up a cleanup, is that it will only show options available for that drive, instead of all available options when using the drive where Windows is installed.

So, even though Disk Cleanup will still run against all drives, it's optimized for that particular drive based on the selections you made.

I have edited the article and removed the section about running against a single drive.

Keep uP the good work!

By: Cor'e =)

Cor'e =) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:19:20 +0000

I did this, but i got very buggy results:

Two Runs:
cleanmgr /d c: /sageset:1
cleanmgr /d g: /sageset:2

and

Created Two Shortcuts:
%windir%\system32\cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:1
%windir%\system32\cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:2

Now running either shortcut actually runs CleanUp for BOTH(!) Drives C: & G: rather than just the single drive letter alone!

What's Up??? Does not work as advertised.