Disk Cleanup?

Question

What is it ?
what does it do?
how do i use it?

Answer 1

Disk Cleanup is a tool allows you to clean up compressed and unnecessary files collected during Windows operations. Windows has deemed these files safe to delete. This files can be anything from your temporary internet files to programs no longer in use.

HOW TO:

1. Click Start
2. Programs
3. Accessories
4. System Tools
5. Click "Disk Cleanup"

You can easily point and click to clean up files and programs at this point. Check out the webpage below for visual help and more clean up methods.
http://www.delete-computer-history.com/how-to-clean-up-a-slow-computer.html

Answer 2

In Windows 98, Me, 2000, and XP, what is Disk Cleanup?
Source: http://www.indiana.edu/~sakaikb/help.cgi?domain=all&docid=aimr

Disk Cleanup frees disk space by cleaning up areas that gather unneeded files. Using Disk Cleanup regularly, along with using ScanDisk and DEFRAG and keeping your virus patterns up to date, will help keep your computer running smoothly.
To run Disk Cleanup, follow the instructions below:
1. Click the Start button, and select Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and then Disk Cleanup.
Note: The Windows XP default desktop view and Start menu are different from the Windows Classic View (e.g., in Windows 2000). Therefore, navigating to certain items can be different. In the interest of broad applicability, most Knowledge Base instructions assume you are using Classic View. For information about switching your Windows XP default view to Classic View, see In Windows XP, how do I switch to the Windows Classic View, Classic theme, or Classic Control Panel?
2. Select the drive on which you would like to free up disk space (usually your C: drive), and click OK.

3. Select from the four areas that Disk Cleanup will check and clean up:

 Temporary Internet Files: These are files stored on your local drive to allow web pages to load more quickly.
 Downloaded Program Files: This is a storage location for programs that are downloaded when you visit specific web sites that use ActiveX and Java applets.
 Recycle Bin: These are files that are marked as deleted.
 Temporary Files: These are items in the TEMP folder.
For more information on what is cleaned up when you select one of these options, highlight any of the options and read the expanded information in the "Description" text box.
There are two other tabs besides the Disk Cleanup tab. They are More Options and Settings. The More Options tab includes the following:
 Windows Components: This allows you to remove unused Windows components.

 Installed Programs: This allows you to remove unused programs.

 Drive Converter: This allows you to save space by converting to FAT32. For more information, see the Knowledge Base document What is FAT32?
The Settings tab includes a single checkbox that will allow you to set Disk Cleanup to run automatically when the computer runs low on disk space.

Answer 3

Disk Cleanup helps you free up space in your computer by giving you the options to remove components that you do not use.

Answer 4

Right Click on your C drive, go to properties, and open the tools tab. Couple of things first it will go through and find temporary files on your hard drive and allow you to delete them. DO NOT try and compress the drive. If you need more space get a bigger drive. This will only compress your files and your drive will run slower because it has to decompress the files to use them.
Second it allows you to defragment and check your drive for problems. Fragmentation is when a file is written in multiple areas of the drive. Defragmenting puts the files back together and moves them to the front of the drive. This provides faster access and less mechanical operation. You can also remove programs here but I don't recommend this unless you know your not using this program.

Answer 5

THIS IS A LONG LIST OF INFO THAT WORKS
TO MAKE OUR COMPUTER FASTER CLEAR YAHOO CACHE

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/settings/settings-15.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx?wt_svl=10073XPHa1&mg_id=10073XPHb1#ELC
these steps below will help clean up your computer and make it faster
In Internet explorer at top of window select tools - then delete browser history
- then another box will open - select delete all- this will not remove your book marks
-Then close explorer then open again .At first pages will be slow once
and then will load fast after it loads 1 time.Also email etc you will have to sign in 1 time with pass word etc.
This will create new cookies.

Also go to start at bottom of on task bar.
click start 1 time then select find or search depending on your operating system.
Select all files and folders - then type in defrag and click search.When icons come up double click
and new box will come up - select analyze then you will see how fragmented you are -
then choose defrag.You can put this program on your desk top by right clicking on the icon you found in search for defrag.
Right click choose create short cut.This will put a short cut on your desk top.Then you can use as needed in future.


GO TO THESE SITE

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

SEARCH
type in disk clean up
go start on blue bar (task bar)
choose search or find
then choose all files and folders
type in word you are looking for
when you see these icons
double click on them until you find what you are looking for
so you dont have to do this again
go back to same icon
right click
choose create short cut on desk top
close all windows
a new icon will be on your desk top
click to open
with disk clean up icon on desk top
open it
choose c drive
let it run
then click ok
you can also choose more options
you will see remove programs i am not using

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ADD AND REMOVE PROGRAMS

remove programs you are not using
click start bottom left on task bar(the blue bar probaly at bottom of your screen)
control panel
add and remove programs
find the program(s) you want to remove
choose remove
reinsall if needed
check status as you do it
be safe

Answer 6

It just checks the specified drive for useless information. To acesess to it, go to windows explorer>my computer>and right click the drive you want to clean out.

E-mail me for more info. my e-mail is

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Answer 7

programs>accesories>sys tools
cleans up junk files on your disk