[Trainer-talk] Article Covering the Disk cleanup Utility

[David Goldfield]

While doing a bit of research to answer a question about my own PC, I 
found a great article from Tech Republic which goes into tremendous 
details about the various options of the built-in Disk Cleanup Utility.  
All Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems have this; I get to it by going to 
Computer, going to the hard drive, press alt-enter for properties and 
then tab until you get to the button. Ah, I've confirmed that you can 
get to it much quicker by typing in the word clean into the start 
menu/start screen and disk Cleanup should be one of the first options.  
This utility is a tad bit like CCleaner, although CCleaner offers more 
cleaning options and also includes a registry cleaner.  About that 
registry cleaner ... use at your own risk.  While I admit that I used to 
run it with abandon, I use it very cautiously and I now refuse to run it 
on a student or consumer's machine as it can do damage to your 
registry.  Anyway, here's the article about using the Disk Cleanup 
utility, which does not tamper with the registry and is pretty safe to use.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/regain-hard-disk-space-by-using-windows-update-cleanup-in-windows-7-and-8x/

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