Thanks God at least defragmenter still there. Saturday, January 2, PM. Yeah I'm with the others here.. Whatever the PM who made this decision was smoking, he needs to stop, cause it's runing his judgement.. I JUST want to be able to clean up and minimize the footprint of a VM before I optimise and compact the drive creating something I can clone to make more 'clean' testbed systems as needed. I've probably eaten up twice the space I'm going to save when I run the cleaner, because I installed all the other desktop experience stuff.
Unless of course I can use it to remove the other junk as un-used programs That functionality should never had been linked to desktop experience. It's a very common thing for many a sysadmin to want to clean off installer logs and other leftover stuff after a new system has just been installed and fully patched.
Thanks LCNZ for the link to what files we want. Note sure if it's going to be quite as easy on a 64 bit system however, as I've got two versions of the.
It's just stupid that I have to deal with this stuff at this level.. Monday, February 1, PM. Thursday, August 5, PM. Hi Oceana, Is there a way that you can share with us the solution to this problem? Thank you. Thursday, August 19, AM. You have to install desktop experience to obtain the two files you need. Copy them to a safe location. Then remove desktop experience. I suggest installing on a VM, grabbing the files then deleting it. This way you won't interrupt your server operations.
If you do this batch run the cmd as admin, and ensure those files are located on the local hard drive in the same folder as the batch file. Proposed as answer by xxzab Thursday, April 12, PM. Tuesday, February 15, PM. If you have a Windows 7 x64 for R2 you can copy the above files without installing Desktop Experience. I would assume the same would work for 7 x32 and RTM.
Thursday, June 16, PM. Thursday, June 23, PM. Thursday, July 21, AM. Missing disk cleanup really makes many ppl unhappy, including me. I searched my Windows R2 and found a copy of cleanmgr. Copy cleanmgr. Enjoy the disk cleanup! It saved me around 5GB disk space! Edited by casey. Tuesday, September 6, AM. Monday, April 30, AM. Sunday, May 6, PM. The files are already installed on your copy of Windows Server, you just need to look for them. Tuesday, July 17, AM.
Wednesday, April 10, AM. Now Microsoft can go pound sand with their obligation to install DE to use a utility tool. Sunday, November 22, PM. All these files can be selected and removed safely, highlight any type of files, you'll see its description on the bottom.
Click OK to start cleaning up. After it finish, repeat to Clean up system files. To the servers that never free up disk, it may help you regain several gigabyte of space. However, free space will be eaten up quickly by new generated junk files, so you'd better add more space to C drive and expand it as large as possible.
Otherwise, C drive will be getting full again in a short time. This step is very important but many people don't know. Windows Server R2: must install Desktop Experience. You can now launch the Disk cleanup tool by running Cleanmgr. If an old cleanup manager is used, windows update files will not be cleaned.
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