Disk Clean up question

[piechart]

Hello,

My newly build system uses an 1 TB M.2 drive along with a 1TB SSD. With mechanical drives I've always run the Windows Disk Clean Up utility from time to time. I know defragging is a no-no with SSD's, but i'm wondering if running Disk Clean Up is still a good idea?

Thank you

 

[USAFRet]

Hello,

My newly build system uses an 1 TB M.2 drive along with a 1TB SSD. With mechanical drives I've always run the Windows Disk Clean Up utility from time to time. I know defragging is a no-no with SSD's, but i'm wondering if running Disk Clean Up is still a good idea?

Thank you

Disk Cleanup is fine.
It simply deletes things.

 

[mjslakeridge]

Make sure disk defragmentation is not set up to run as a scheduled task. On my Windows 8.1 Pro system, I believe it was scheduled to run once per week as a default task. I left it that way as I don't have any SSDs yet. You can go to your search bar and type in Task Scheduler to see what tasks are scheduled to run and when.

 

[USAFRet]

Make sure disk defragmentation is not set up to run as a scheduled task. On my Windows 8.1 Pro system, I believe it was scheduled to run once per week as a default task. I left it that way as I don't have any SSDs yet. You can go to your search bar and type in Task Scheduler to see what tasks are scheduled to run and when.

Actually, Win 7 and later know the difference, and won't actually "defrag" an SSD.

 

[mjslakeridge]

That's good to know ^^^, as I probably wouldn't remember to go in and cancel the task when I do get a SSD.

Edit: I wasn't thinking clearly. I won't have to cancel the task when I get a SSD. I will leave it scheduled so it can defrag my secondary drive (HDD).

 

[why_wolf]

In W10 you can use storage sense which will automatically delete temp files and the like, there are some options in it. Its basically the new version of disk cleaner.

 

[piechart]

Good info, thanks guys!