Disk Cleanup is Going Away in Windows 10

Yup

I hate to see cleanmgr go, because of its ability to run at the command line and/or in scripts. Perhaps MS won't do away with it completely and will let us keep using it that way. Fingers crossed! Blogged about this yesterday too: Bye-Bye Disk Cleanup?
--Ed--

Now if we can only get MS to remove the "User Downloads" option box from Free Storage, we can avert a pending disaster for Joe Public. IMHO.

Mark Phelps said:

I have tried BOTH Disk Cleaner and Storage -- and on my systems, the first does much more than the second.

I have compared both and disk cleaner ALWAYS finds and cleans more stuff than Storage does -- and that is NOT based on the estimates it provides because those are way off. The results are based on running disk partitioning utilities both before and after cleanup actions and seeing which of the tools removes the most stuff. Disk Cleaner wins -- every time!

So, the Storage tool is NOT a Win10 equivalent of Disk Cleaner because it does not allow you to find and remove the same stuff.

Agree. Storage is fine and easy for average user. Easy to point to for support help, too. But doubt anything they offer up in the General Interface is gonna compare to:

%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

That's not much of a reason to stop updating Windows 10, especially since there are alternatives and I'm sure more will come along.

Also, you could save C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe (may have a dependency) then it will always work.

Ztruker said:

That's not much of a reason to stop updating Windows 10, especially since there are alternatives and I'm sure more will come along.

Also, you could save C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe (may have a dependency) then it will always work.

That might get a little tricky....

dekash27 said:

Agreed, I only use disk cleaner in Windows 10, I don't think I will update my Windows 10 installation anymore if disk cleaner is gonna be removed.

Ztruker said:

That's not much of a reason to stop updating Windows 10, especially since there are alternatives and I'm sure more will come along.

For the specific case of cleaning up Windows Update Backups after an update (something I do after every month's cumulative update) there has always been an alternative. All Disk Clean-up does is provide a convenient way to start the process, but Option One or Option Two in this tutorial do exactly the same job.

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