How to Set Up a Daily Disk Cleanup

Scheduling an automatic daily disk cleanup makes your computer run faster. PC or laptop, the Windows Vista scheduler runs almost any hard disk cleanup utility, even if the download was free. This video walks you through the steps to set up a daily disk cleanup.

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Posted by P/ Merson JANUARY 05, 2009 | 08:57AM
Woman speaks too rapidly to follow.

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Posted by Joe Readl JANUARY 05, 2009 | 09:26AM
Why is this presented to us as a video? It would have made much more sense to give us something to print out. There is waaay too many steps to go thru while trying to follow a video. Also I could not find this in my copy of 'Windows Vista For Dummies'.

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Posted by eugene marsh JANUARY 05, 2009 | 10:55AM
I can't get this to play!! Do you have a solution for that?

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Posted by susie margaret JANUARY 05, 2009 | 11:23AM
-- it is impossible to follow this for people who are hard of hearing. please include a written transcript with videos. -- the diction is also fuzzy, making it hard to understand even for those who do hear well. -- thanks.

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Posted by Ann Powers JANUARY 05, 2009 | 11:23AM
You advertise Vista & XP how to's. So where's the video for windows XP?

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Posted by Larry Boyd JANUARY 05, 2009 | 00:25PM
You advertise Vista & XP how to's. So where's the video for windows XP in reference to the disk cleanup? I think the video is good but slow it down so regular people can do the steps as they are spoken.

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Posted by Jeremy Harris JANUARY 05, 2009 | 02:52PM
Good tutorial... @ Comment 1: Press pause on video to stop it at each time. @ Comment 2: No more steps in a video than in a printout. Refer to '@ comment 1' section above. @ Comment 3: Install Flash player. http://www.adobe.com @ Comment 4 & dummies.com (& possibly comment 2): A written tutorial would probably help. http://www.helmetheadcycle.com

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Posted by Kim Heppell JANUARY 05, 2009 | 03:23PM
The tutorial is good except it only covers Vista - what about XP?

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Posted by Nancy Green JANUARY 05, 2009 | 07:26PM
For step one, you tell me to click on the search option (w/magnifying glass) in the start menu...well, it's not there!!! (& yes, I have Vista)

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Posted by Dona JANUARY 06, 2009 | 06:13PM
What about XP? I would also prefer the information in a format that I can print!

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Posted by Max Anderson JANUARY 07, 2009 | 05:38AM
Today, in Australia, it's 7 January. In this country we take the whole of January for summer holidays, thank you very much. But I gather that Dummies.Com lives in the US, given the 'accent' of the video commentator. And the US doesn't take all of January off - SO WHY IS THIS VIDEO STILL LABELLED AS APPLYING TO WINDOWS VISTA AND XP. There were three comments dated 5 January making this complaint!!! Jim Heppel, Larry Boyd and Ann Powers made this complaint before I have.

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Posted by Max Anderson JANUARY 07, 2009 | 05:39AM
Today, in Australia, it's 7 January. In this country we take the whole of January for summer holidays, thank you very much. But I gather that Dummies.Com lives in the US, given the 'accent' of the video commentator. And the US doesn't take all of January off - SO WHY IS THIS VIDEO STILL LABELLED AS APPLYING TO WINDOWS VISTA AND XP. There were three comments dated 5 January making this complaint!!! Jim Heppel, Larry Boyd and Ann Powers made this complaint before I have.

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Posted by Bill JANUARY 07, 2009 | 06:04PM
This video is too fast to be able to use without constant pauses. When will you make a printed version available?

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Posted by Nathan JANUARY 13, 2009 | 10:24AM
Ever since I followed this video, I had two problems. One, I had to add a password to my Log In and Two, now I get a "The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with.Disk Cleanup" ever time I open Task Scheduler and the Task Scheduler will not run the Disk CleanUp. I tried to do a System Restore and I still have problems!!!! Don't do this if I were you.

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Posted by robert JANUARY 18, 2009 | 00:47PM
you said vista&windows xp. why do you know it all's LIE do you think its cool or something? you would be out of a job if i was your boss.we computer users come to you for help and all you give us is LIES. i have to go elsewhere.

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Posted by Steve JANUARY 19, 2009 | 09:36AM
& XP is where?

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Posted by Steve JANUARY 19, 2009 | 09:39AM
Your Search "xp disk cleanup" Returned No Results...Good Job.

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Posted by daniel boudreau JANUARY 21, 2009 | 01:03AM
regicur claims to be free but thers a catch,when you download the free regicur install and run it,i dont remember exactly at what point it ha ppens but i have to by it or it will restor my system as if it never did anything at all,sur it seemed to have cleaned it up but it still slow lik a turtle,so realy its not free, im going to try it again and tak notes on how things turned out

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Posted by daniel boudreau JANUARY 21, 2009 | 10:14AM
i tryed the free regiclean again and when its don scanningh i have to register it,witch means that i have to by it for a complet clean,i gues il have to by the program

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Posted by Jose JANUARY 28, 2009 | 05:49AM
Great video, thanks a lot. But I have Windows XP, "please" give us the equivalent steps for Windows XP so we can program this in our PCs. Thanks again for teaching us so many interesting aspects of our PCs, keep up that great job !

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Posted by Sue JUNE 03, 2009 | 11:51AM
Windows Vista ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMMIES, is a great book. Cause if I forget or do not know, it has my answers. Thank You.

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Posted by Sharon JUNE 22, 2009 | 01:54PM
Too fast and co nfusing

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Posted by Nancy Kuhl JULY 17, 2009 | 08:49PM
This did not come in at all. I really would like to know how to do this. So how do I get it to come in??

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