Deleting old Update Backups

Hi Brink,

Its independent of Task Scheduler and can be run at anytime.

Thank you Steven,

It does not seem to do anything after I check the items and click OK. Am I missing something somewhere?

Shawn

Hi Brink,

Yes, you need to open a Administrative Command Prompt before running Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

I forgot about UAC interfering with the command when its run manually, I normally use this short-cut for launching the clean-up using the right-click "Run as Admin"...

Steven

Ah, thank you Steven. That's what I was missing. It ran fine through the elevated command prompt.

You should write up a tutorial for How to Use the Enhanced Disk Cleanup in Vista.


Shawn

lol ok, I will later tonight..

Honestly? I think it was at the How To Geek - when I was trying to find a better way to run this disk cleanup, before I opted to start using CCleaner.

However, your discussion with Brink about Task Scheduler and running as admin reminded me of another cute little trick.

You can make any shortcut run as admin all the time without ever *asking* you to do so - the trick is to create a task scheduler entry for that shortcut.

Create a new task, under the General tab check Run with highest privileges, under the Actions tab add a new action to run that program, and under Settings tab check Allow task to be run on demand.

Voila! Now you can run the shortcut with elevated privileges *without* getting UAC prompts.

Thanks John,

I will add that with the tutorial. +rep

Steven

Hi folks: I have no idea what was posted here. I have over 16 + backups on my external drive. I have the comp. set to auto backup once a week.

The question I have (and maybe its answered here but I'm not understanding) is can I delete the old backups from my external drive? Maybe all except the current month?

Thanx!

-frizz
ps. I back up the entire C drive once a month using Acronis. I keep at least 3 months worth of those. The backups above are the ones that are automatically backed to the external by the OS

Hi Frizzie,

I might be wrong but its either delete all or none

Checkout this Tutorial for running the Extended Disk Cleanup

Steven

Hi Frizzie,

I might be wrong but its either delete all or none

Checkout this Tutorial for running the Extended Disk Cleanup

Steven
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Thanx for the reply Steven. Insted of using the extended disk cleanup feature, I use CCleaner that serves the same purpose (I think).

Good thot tho.