‘Disk Clean’ button alternative in vista !

Syed Muhammad Numan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:47:46 +0000

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

‘Disk Clean’ button gone from Vista drive properties in General tab

Syed Muhammad Numan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:34:33 +0000

I found the following techguy help digging through internet:

disk cleanup missing from Properties
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
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.
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.

Close the registry editor.

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‘Disk Clean’ button alternative in vista !

‘Disk Clean’ button gone from Vista drive properties in General tab