Disk Space Cleanup

20th August 2019

Uncategorised

Empty recycle bin, after backup of course

start run cmd (as admin),
dir (to show free disk space)
cleanmgr.exe
check all the boxes that say GB
dir (again to show free disk space)

Verify De-duplication stats; PowerShell as Admin
Get-DedupStatus c: | fl
pay attention to
LastOptimizationTime : 5/13/2020 12:45:07 PM

Manually run the Deduplication garbage collection in case the scheduled task has stopped:
Start-DedupJob -Type GarbageCollection -Priority High -Volume “c:”

Get-DedupJob -Volume “c:”

Download Mass Image Compressor (req DotNet) and run it. 90% jpeg compression is still perfectly usable.