Quick disk cleanup
Every few months, I like to do a little spring cleaning and remove the hundreds of temporary and backup files which get left behind by various applications.
While there are a number of tools which can tidy up your hard disk using the Windows XP/2000 graphical interface, sometimes a simple batch file is all you need:
del "%systemdrive%\*.bak" /s /q
del "%systemdrive%\*.tmp" /s /q
if exist "%systemdrive%\temp\" del "%systemdrive%\temp\*.*" /s /q
if exist "%systemroot%\temp\" del "%systemroot%\temp\*.*" /s /q
del "%userprofile%\local settings\temp\*.*" /s /q
Copy and paste the above five lines into your favourite text editor and save the contents to your desktop. Just make sure the file extension is either ".cmd" or ".bat". Something like "Cleanup.cmd" is probably a good name.
Keep in mind that deleting files this way actually deletes the files permanently instead of putting them in your recycle bin.
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