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  • Syed Muhammad Numan 8:47 am on November 29, 2009 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    ‘Disk Clean’ button alternative in vista ! 

    Apart from the previous post Disc Cleanup in vista can also be performed in the following way:
    Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Performance Information and Tools
    Now on the left column choose Open Disk Cleanup. The rest is the same as it is in the General Tab of disk properties box.

    UPDATE : 11-Dec-2009

    The location should be the following:

    Control Panel -> Performance Information and Tools
     
  • Syed Muhammad Numan 8:34 pm on November 27, 2009 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    ‘Disk Clean’ button gone from Vista drive properties in General tab 

    I found the following techguy help digging through internet:

    disk cleanup missing from Properties

    1. If you right-click a drive, select Properties, then select the Tools tab, you’ll see buttons for backing up and defragmenting your disk. On the General tab, you’ll also see a button labeled Disk Cleanup. By default, Win2K and later run the following programs for Disk Cleanup:
      • Disk cleanup–C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /D %c
    2. Navigate to the
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer

      registry subkey. Under the subkey are three keys: BackupPath, cleanuppath, and DefragPath. Under each of these keys, the (Default) value specifies the program to be used. If any of the keys don’t exist (by default, BackupPath doesn’t exist in Win2K), go to the Edit menu; select New, Key; then enter the name of the missing key under the MyComputer subkey.

    3. Double-click the (Default) value under the path you want to modify, change the value to reflect the program you want to use, (C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /D %c) then click OK.
    4. Close the registry editor.
     
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