{"id":3708,"date":"2012-02-11T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:24:55","slug":"did-you-know-that-one-of-the-best-cleanup-tools-already-comes-with-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/did-you-know-that-one-of-the-best-cleanup-tools-already-comes-with-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that one of the best cleanup tools&#8230; already comes with Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; no offense to all those free cleanup tools out there, but hidden on the hard drive of your Windows computer is a little program that will SAFELY (no offense CCleaner) clean all those garbage, temp and other necessary files for you. You don&#8217;t need to download anything. You don&#8217;t need to install anything. If you&#8217;re a purist you&#8217;ll love that.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to use the built in Windows cleanup tool called Disk Cleanup &#8211; if you&#8217;re using Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 , \u00a0you already have it.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the Windows Key plus the R key<\/li>\n<li>Type cleanmgr.exe in the run dialog<\/li>\n<li>Press Enter<\/li>\n<li>Select the drive you want to clean (usually C:\\ )<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2012\/cleanmgr-2012.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"351\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2012\/cleanmgr1-2012.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"389\" height=\"476\" \/><br \/>\nClick on the &#8220;Cleanup system files&#8221; button then select the drive letter again (usually C:\\ ) and wait. It will look like Disk Cleanup is starting all over again &#8212; but trust us, it&#8217;s not. When the Disk Cleanup dialog appears again, click &#8220;OK&#8221;. You&#8217;ll be asked if you want to permanently delete the files. Click the &#8220;Delete files&#8221; button. That&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s not the fastest cleaner-upper on the block but it is one of the best and one of the safest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2012\/cleanmgr2-2012.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"390\" height=\"476\" \/><br \/>\nClean your computer right now &#8212; you might be surprised by how much disk clutter you have&#8230;.or had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; no offense to all those free cleanup tools out there, but hidden on the hard drive of your Windows computer is a little program that will SAFELY (no offense CCleaner) clean all those garbage, temp and other necessary files for you. You don&#8217;t need to download anything. You don&#8217;t need to install anything. If you&#8217;re\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/did-you-know-that-one-of-the-best-cleanup-tools-already-comes-with-windows\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}