Solved disk cleanup removed from W11

tinmar49 · Sep 26, 2021

It is still in my copy of W11, I use the simplest way to get to it:
This PC
Right click on the drive of your choice
Properties
disk cleanup

If you go to tools, you can also optimise SSD's and error check if required.

tinmar49 · Sep 26, 2021

NavyLCDR said:
Here's a whole bunch of stuff under Windows Tools that you thought may have been missing, including disk cleanup:

View attachment 8312

I have been using control panel since W95, and had never bothered to click on windows tools till you prompted me, thanks, Navy.

cereberus · Sep 26, 2021

tinmar49 said:
It is still in my copy of W11, I use the simplest way to get to it:
This PC
Right click on the drive of your choice
Properties
disk cleanup

If you go to tools, you can also optimise SSD's and error check if required.

As I explained, that has changed in latest Dev version, so now I have a shortcut to cleanmgr.exe.

tinmar49 · Sep 26, 2021

I am only on the beta, Microsoft have not yet got round to "improving" that.

atinfo · Nov 6, 2021

After installing "KB5008295" and "KB5006746", Disk Cleanup (Run as Admin) does not show "Windows Update Cleanup" and "System Files Cleanup"!

Build 22000.282 (Stable version, Enterprise)

ThrashZone · Nov 6, 2021

Hi,
I was wondering how to get rid of recommended file cleaning

Winuser · Nov 6, 2021

cereberus said:
W11 has now removed our trusty friend disk cleanup and you now have to go via rather longwinded Storage Sense setting menus to remove windows.old.

Worse, the progress bar just sits there until action is complete and goes from 0% to 100% almost immediately i.e. you have no obvious display of the cleanup as we do with the old method.

Yet another retrograde step. I am now calling Windows 11 'Windows 9'.

cereberus said:
I did a search for disk cleanup and it found nothing. I shall create a shortcut for cleanmgr.

thanks.

You can click on the C: drive then clink on the three dots on the top righthand side.

Wisewiz · Nov 6, 2021

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
I was wondering how to get rid of recommended file cleaning

Where are you seeing "recommended file cleaning"?

badrobot · Nov 6, 2021

it is back now, right?

ThrashZone · Nov 6, 2021

Wisewiz said:
Where are you seeing "recommended file cleaning"?

Hi,
Settings storage
It's a lower listing.
Since it doesn't show any unused ms apps it shouldn't be there

BunnyJ · Nov 7, 2021

How about this.. right click on start,, press run and then enter cleanmgr

The-Hive · Nov 7, 2021

Quite right @BunnyJ, I did just that, then opened file location and created a shortcut and put it in a folder I call Maintenance, obviously you can put the shortcut where you like.

Winuser · Nov 7, 2021

I open the C: drive in File Explorer and click on the three dots on the top.

Wisewiz · Nov 7, 2021

Winuser said:
I open the C: drive in File Explorer and click on the three dots on the top.

Which, of course, won't work if you've replaced the Command bar with the classic ribbon. In that case, you have to click Drive Tools instead of the three dots (which are not there on the ribbon).

Winuser · Nov 7, 2021

Wisewiz said:
Which, of course, won't work if you've replaced the Command bar with the classic ribbon. In that case, you have to click Drive Tools instead of the three dots (which are not there on the ribbon).

View attachment 12882

The only mod I have made is to add the clock to my second screen with ElevenClock.

The-Hive · Nov 7, 2021

@Winuser @BunnyJ If you look along the list there is one called clean up 3rd in from left on mine that does the trick with the "old style" explotrer

Winuser · Nov 7, 2021

The-Hive said:
@Winuser @BunnyJ If you look along the list there is one called clean up 3rd in from left on mine that does the trick with the "old style" explotrerView attachment 12889

I didn't do the mod to get the classic ribbon.

BunnyJ · Nov 7, 2021

The-Hive said:
@Winuser @BunnyJ If you look along the list there is one called clean up 3rd in from left on mine that does the trick with the "old style" explotrerView attachment 12889

I just use the method to run cleanmgr..

The-Hive · Nov 7, 2021

@Winuser can you still get to it from the large icon or menu under drive tools?

Dru2 · Nov 7, 2021

Clean install of Windows 11 Pro RTM 21H1 (build 22000.282).

Haven't read the entire thread, but I certainly have Disk Cleanup as well as the shortcut pinned to taskbar...