Well, it does crucial areas of the system that often need clean up. If you
want more granular control, you could try browsing the Temp directory with
hidden files shown and clear out any unnecessary files from there.
Click Start > type %TEMP% and hit Enter
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Andre
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"Dr. Strangelove" <DrStrangelove@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Sorry Andre, but Disk Cleanup only does a fraction of what is needed.
>
> Doc
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Its simple 'Disk Cleanup'.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "Dr. Strangelove" <DrStrangelove@xxxxxx> wrote in
>> message
>> news:E45DB4FE-CDEE-409B-A839-A1FFDD852553@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > There are various methods and tools to clean up trash files, temp
>> > files,
>> > personal settings, Office temp, restore points, IE temp, etc, etc.
>> > And,
>> > there are a multitude of places for the trash to accumulate. However,
>> > there
>> > is no one list of what to clean, where to clean, how to clean, and in
>> > what
>> > order.
>> >
>> > Let's say you have your system tuned and want to do a backup without
>> > having
>> > all of the trash, temp, and settings be on the backup. What steps,
>> > system
>> > tools (ie Disk Cleanup), and methods do you use?
>> >
>> > And, for those of us paranoid about using unknown third party tools,
>> > what
>> > manual methods can be used?
>> >
>> > Doc
>>
>>
>>