How To Schedule Disk Cleanup To Launch Automatically In Windows 7
Hard disk cleanup on regular basis is an important step for running your Windows PC in optimal condition. Too many trash files in your PC consumes your valuable hard disk space and also affects performance of your PC. We recommend you to clean your hard disk using a good junk files cleaning utility. Windows has a built-in Disk Cleanup utility which cleans your PC from unwanted files like temporary system files, temporary internet files, setup log files, etc.
To launch this utility, Click “Start” button—> Type “Disk Cleanup” in the programs search box and hit enter.
We recommend you to run the utility on regular basis. But what if you can schedule a task to run “Disk Cleanup” utility automatically on your Windows 7 PC? You will be away from the hassle of remembering to run this tool. We give you step-by-step guide to schedule disk cleanup to run it on regular basis.
1. Click start button, type “Task Scheduler” in the Programs search box,
2. In the Task Scheduler tool, Click on “Action” menu, and then click “Create Basic Task…”.
3. In the “Create Basic Task Wizard”, type a name for the task and give a description.Then click “Next” button.
4. Choose a option for the task to run. For example we choose “Weekly”. Click “Next”.
5. Choose a start time and day for the task. For instance, we choose to start at 5:50PM on every Thursday. Click Next.
6. In the Action dialog box, choose “Start a program” radio button. Click Next.
7. In the “Start a Program” dialog box, type cleanmgr.exe and click Next.
8. Finally, it shows you the summary of scheduled task. Click Finish.
Now in the Task Scheduler utility, you can check the record of the task you just created.
That’s it. Forget about the trouble of remembering to clean up your hard disk! It will be launched at your scheduled time automatically. All you need to do after it gets launched is choose the drive and click OK.
