It was always there and did a solid job without the drama. It even had a malware scare after its servers were hacked.ĭisk Cleanup was the steady tool we could always come back to. We geeks moved on to more comprehensive tools like CCleaner that also erased other types of temporary files, including gigabytes of NVIDIA driver installer files and web browsing histories from Chrome and Firefox.ĬCleaner might have been packed with features, but it eventually ended up packed with additional software and features that collected data about your PC after Piriform, CCleaner’s developer, was sold to Avast. Okay, okay, let’s be honest: Disk Cleanup fell out of favor. Geeks Turned to CCleaner, But Disk Cleanup Was Always Reliable We’ve been teaching people to use Disk Cleanup for years. On a complicated operating system that kept adding new features over time, Disk Cleanup was always the one-stop location for freeing up disk space.
Whether it was removing a few hundred MB of temporary files on Windows XP or removing more than 10 GB of leftover files after installing a big update to Windows 10, it always worked well to free up the disk space we needed. You can also just launch it from the Start menu or run the cleanmgr.exe program.ĭisk Cleanup has gotten more and more useful over time. It still works the same way on Windows 10 today. Right-click a drive, select “Properties,” and then click the “Disk Cleanup” button to launch it. Whatever version of Windows you’re using, Disk Cleanup has always worked the same way. We’ve been using Disk Cleanup for over 20 years since it debuted in Windows 98. Disk Cleanup deserves a better send-off than a tiny note at the end of a Microsoft blog post.
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