Run Disk Cleanup as Admin

There hasn't been an update on using Disk Cleanup in a few years here, though there was a good discussion on this utility a while back when we first heard it might disappear from Windows 10 (Disk Cleanup is Going Away in Windows 10).

One thing many home users may not have noticed about DC is that after it opens and asks for confirmation of the drive to be examined, it displays the check-boxes panel shown here (top) with an option button in it labeled Clean up system files. If that button is clicked, DC re-checks for confirmation of the drive to be examined, and then displays a richer check-boxes panel that includes some big-ticket items that deserve attention (bottom), and the Clean up system files button (which you already used to change the display of options) is absent.

This panel display and replacement process (non-system to system) can be reduced to a one-click process by simply setting your shortcut for DC to Run as Administrator. DC will then just confirm the drive-to-be-examined and immediately display the full (system-included) panel.

Some clicks saved are some clicks earned (or something like that).



蔚丹

Perhaps you'd do better posting in
Open and Use Disk Cleanup - TenForumsTutorials

Denis

That's a fairly old thread with only a few recent posts in it, so I thought this reminder might be useful in the Maintenance category.

It's a tutorial not just any old thread and Brink spends a lot of time keeping tutorials up-to-date. If your suggestions are useful then I'm sure he'd be only too delighted to incorporate them.

Denis

Nobody appreciates the work Brink does and the incredible value of it more than I do. I think I just am not an old enough hand at this forum to know exactly how to handle an idea that occurs to me in a way that will be productive and not offend anybody. I appreciate your guidance.

Well, you can be confident that Brink will also appreciate your contribution. That's how the tutorials evolve.

All the best,
Denis

Brink and I have conferred. All is well. Thanks again.