{"id":12477,"date":"2017-03-01T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2017-03-03T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:42:00","slug":"windows-cleanup-a-trip-down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-cleanup-a-trip-down-memory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows CleanUp! A Trip Down Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Windows CleanUp! A Trip Down Memory Lane<\/h1>\n<p>We had a question sent to us this week by Frank, a Cloudeight subscriber. Frank asked if we still recommend a program we recommended long ago, called Windows CleanUp!<\/p>\n<p>So, \u00a0I rummaged through some old programs and and found Windows CleanUp! &#8211; the program that EB &amp; I used to call \u201cthe toilet-flusher\u201d program. If you download, install and run it, you\u2019ll see why. Otherwise, you\u2019ll just have to imagine whatever you will.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to check to see if there was a newer version than the one I had installed years ago, and to my surprise there wasn&#8217;t a upgrade. Still the same version number, same file size, everything was the same. But, I decided to re-download it (February 28, 2017) and install it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to let Stephen Gould save the day for you and let you escape my incessant tendency to wordiness: Stephen, our old friend, take it away:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Free disk space &amp; protect your privacy<\/p>\n<p>All in one easy solution. And all for free!<\/p>\n<p>Introducing Windows CleanUp!, the quickest and easiest way to delete temporary files from your system.<\/p>\n<p>CleanUp! is a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more.<\/p>\n<p>CleanUp! frees disk space and reduces the &#8220;clutter&#8221; on your computer helping it to run more efficiently. It also can be used as a way to protect your privacy on the Internet. You can even instruct CleanUp! to securely delete files making it impossible to retrieve their contents using lower-level disk tools &#8211; just another way of protecting your privacy.<\/p>\n<p>No gimmicks here, CleanUp! is so easy to set up and use that you&#8217;ll have a lean, clean, mean machine in minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for trying CleanUp!<\/p>\n<p>Steven R. Gould<br \/>\n&#8211; Author of Windows CleanUp!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Stephen hasn\u2019t updated this program in a long time, he has changed his page to &#8220;Introducing&#8230;Windows CleanUp&#8221;. We have used Windows CleanUp on Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10. It works on 32-bit or 64-bit computers<\/p>\n<p>While Stephen no longer lists Windows versions that Windows CleanUp! works with, we&#8217;ll just say it works with all versions of Windows. Here&#8217;s a screen shot of Windows CleanUp! running on my Windows 10 64-bit computer:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/cleanup.png\" alt=\"CLOUDEIGHT INFOAVE\" width=\"600\" height=\"308\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: Notice the old-style Windows 98 \/ XP user Interface of CleanUp. It&#8217;s an oldie. but a goodie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/cleanup2.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: A little later on&#8230; \u00a0as you can see, its about time I cleaned this PC up! I&#8217;m embarrassed. See? Do as I say, not as I do. That&#8217;s what my granny used to tell me, I tells ya!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WARNING: RUN THE PROGRAM AS IT IS WITHOUT GOING INTO \u00a0OPTIONS. IN OPTIONS YOU CAN CHOOSE THOROUGH CLEANUP WHICH WILL REMOVE ALL YOUR FAVORITES, BOOKMARKS, BROWSER-STORED PASSWORDS. LEAVE THE OPTIONS BUTTON ALONE UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU&#8217;RE DOING.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12496 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cleanup3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cleanup3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Cleanup3-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above, please note the download link. You don&#8217;t have to click the &#8220;Pay Now&#8221; button to download the program &#8211; the Pay Now button is the developers donation button.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stevengould.org\/downloads\/cleanup\/CleanUp452.exe\"> You can download Windows CleanUp directly from this link<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a fun, easy-to-use program that does just what it says it does, then you\u2019ll love CleanUp! The first time you run it, you\u2019ll get a laugh too.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevengould.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=15&amp;Itemid=223\">Learn more about Windows CleanUp! from this page<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/stevengould.org\/downloads\/cleanup\/CleanUp452.exe\"><strong>The direct download link \u00a0is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a 332 KB download; it&#8217;s still easy to install and run. Windows CleanUp still works like a good program should. Simple, easy and effective.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Frank, for reminding us about Windows CleanUp! and starting us on a trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p><em>PS: There are a billion Windows Cleanup tools out there. Many of them free or that have free versions. And yes there are some excellent ones with lots of razzle-dazzle features &#8211; like CCleaner. Choose the one you like best. If you want to be mimimalistic, you can just use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup (Cleanmgr.exe). To run Windows Disk Cleanup, press Windows Key + R and type CLEANMGR in the Run dialog then press Enter. It works on any version of Windows.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows CleanUp! A Trip Down Memory Lane We had a question sent to us this week by Frank, a Cloudeight subscriber. Frank asked if we still recommend a program we recommended long ago, called Windows CleanUp! 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