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How to Automate Disk Cleanup with PowerShell

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Optimize your system’s performance with automated Disk Cleanup using PowerShell, ensuring thorough file removal across all user accounts effortlessly.

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To run Disk Cleanup as the system user and clean up files for all user accounts on the computer using PowerShell, you can follow these steps:

  1. Run Disk Cleanup as System User: To perform Disk Cleanup with elevated privileges, use the schtasks command to schedule a task that runs as the system user. This task will be set to clean up system files and files from all user accounts.
  2. Execute Disk Cleanup: The cleanmgr utility can be used to run Disk Cleanup. However, there isn’t a direct way to specify all user accounts using cleanmgr. Instead, you can automate the process using the Dism (Deployment Imaging Service and Management Tool) command, which can clean up system components and Windows Update files.

Here’s an example PowerShell script to accomplish this:

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