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cleanmgr.exe

Disk Space Cleanup Manager for Windows - deprecated in favor of Storage Sense (start ms-settings:storagesense)

Files to delete

Downloaded Program Files C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files
Temporary Internet Files %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE
System Created Windows Error Reporting Files C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive
DirectX Shader Cache
Delivery Optimization Files
Downloads
Recycle Bin C:\$Recycle.Bin
Temporary Files
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Controlling behavior

The behavior of cleanmgr.exe is controlled through subkeys under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches.

Log files

The logfiles are written into %SystemRoot%\System32\LogFiles\setupcl.

TODO

Freeing up disk space

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