/cleanmgr /sagerun in batch scripts

Paul Black said:

Just out of curiosity, and I know that you can have more than one StateFlags number in the Registry Key for use on different drives for example, but have you got an entry purely for StateFlags with NO Number next to it as shown below ?

I have one - see post #6 /cleanmgr /sagerun in batch scripts

I thought I'd see what other reports of this hanging issue existed, so searched - and a comment on a google group had me trying to run from the command line, not from a batch file - and it worked without hanging.

So I then tried the batch file: OK

I tried running sageset, and noticed that it was now remembering my settings (up to now it had defaulted to 2 other options which I didn't want - but cannot now recall). Subsequent sagerun's all worked fine.

The only thing I can think of is that I had to do a restart the other day (don't do them often). Has that fixed some glitch? Time alone will tell. Martin

stateflags with no number:

on a whim (and with an idea of what I might find), I tried:
1. Check stateflags with no number: all set to 1 (well, those I checked)
2 run cleanmgr interactively - all items are initially set (I think), clearing all bar 2 of them
3. check stateflags: all 'std' ones set to 0, bar the two I left, which are set to 1
4. run cleanmgr interactively: all settings as I left them.

So there you have it!

hello experts! :)
Has someone managed to circumvent the stuck cleanmgr ?
i tried every hint here on windows 11 but it's still the same issue : cleanmgr is waiting on the last item asked to clean and then a mouseover closes the program.

Thanks!

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samn3rt said:

hello experts! :)
Has someone managed to circumvent the stuck cleanmgr ?
i tried every hint here on windows 11 but it's still the same issue : cleanmgr is waiting on the last item asked to clean and then a mouseover closes the program.

Thanks!

Update :
my goal was to clean old windows update in unattended.
i have found this to be a workaround for my cleaning needs:

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

Code:

try {
    # start the  dism.exe process 
    $process = Start-Process -FilePath "dism.exe" -ArgumentList "/online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup" -PassThru -Wait

    Write-Output "exit code : $($process.ExitCode)"
} catch {
    # show the error
    Write-Error "An error occured while running dism.exe : $_"
}