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12 Ways to Open Disk Clean-up on Your Windows Computer? 1 year 46 weeks ago

Disk Clean-up (cleanmgr.exe) is a Windows maintenance utility. It is used to free up disk space on a Windows computer. This tool can search and analyze your computer’s hard drive for files that are no longer use and removes unnecessary files.

Disk Clean-up is a very useful tool. Do you know how to open it on your computer? In this post, we will show you some methods. You can choose a convenient method to use.

How to Open Disk Clean-up on Windows?
Use Windows search
Use Cortana
Use the Start menu
Use Control Panel
Use Disk Clean-up shortcut
Pin to the Start Menu
Use Run
Use Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell
Use Task Manager
Select the target drive to run this tool
Use File Explorer
Run its executable file

Command Prompt Shortcuts You Should Know [2020 Update] 2 years 43 weeks ago

Windows Command Prompt is a powerful tool for you to execute all kinds of commands to achieve some aims. In nature, it relies on some keyboard use especially some Command Prompt shortcuts. Some of these shortcuts for Command Prompt have been around in the early time, while, some are new with Windows 10 and you need to enable them before using them.
In this post, we will show you some useful Command Prompt shortcuts that can streamline your life.
Open and Close the Windows Command Prompt
Move Around in Windows Command Prompt
Select Text in Command Prompt
Manipulate the Selected Text in Command Prompt
Work with the Command History

What Is Safe to Delete in Disk Cleanup? Here Is the Answer 3 years 15 weeks ago

Windows Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a Windows snap-in maintenance utility that is used to free up disk space on your computer. This tool can first search and analyze the hard drive for the files that are no longer used.
After scanning, it will show you a list containing the files like delivery optimization files, Windows ESD installation files, previous Windows installations files, and more that you can delete with this tool.
When you see these files in Disk Cleanup, you may ask: should I delete Windows setup files? Should I delete previous Windows installations? Should I delete Windows ESD installation files? All these questions can be summed up into one question: what is safe to delete in Disk Cleanup?
We collect some information in the following contents that can help you realize these files in Disk Cleanup and decide which files need to be deleted. We hope you can find what you want after reading this article.

6 Solutions - The Drive Where Windows Is Installed Is Locked 5 years 7 weeks ago

"The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again."
Why our hard drive is locked? Do you know how to unlock a hard drive?
Method One: Rebuild MBR with MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable CD
MiniTool Partition Wizard, a professional partition magic developed by a famous software development company based in Canada, is recommended here. Since Windows cannot boot because of hard drive locked error, we can click the "Bootable Media" feature to download MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Media Builder.

Method Two: Repair Your Computer with Windows Installation Disc
Step 1. You have to prepare an installation disc or repair disk, either USB or CD/DVD.

Tip: you'd better use the installation disc which is for the same edition of Windows you are trying to repair.

Step 2. Connect the installation disc to your computer and boot from it to get the window below (here we take Windows 8 installation disc for example):

Step 3. Choose a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard, or an input method, and then click Next to continue.

Step 4. Choose Repair your computer rather than Install now.
Step 5. Click on Troubleshoot → Advanced options → Automatic Repair (Windows 8) or Startup Repair (Windows 8.1) → choose Windows 8 to repair. Then, Windows will look for and fix problems.

Method Three: Fix Boot-related Files with Bootrec.exe Tool
Step 1. Insert the Windows bootable drive and boot from it.
Step 2. Select your language preferences, and click Next.
Step 3. After selecting language, press Shift + F10 to open command prompt.
Step 4. Type bootrec.exe in command prompt and press Enter key to launch the tool.
Step 5. Type the following commands, and each command should end with pressing on Enter key:
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /RebuildBcd

Method Four: Fix Disk Errors with CHKDSK.exe

Undo Diskpart Clean Command – Recover Lost Data after Clean 6 years 16 weeks ago

As you know, Diskpart refers to the text-mode command interpreter in Windows. By using this tool, you can manage your disk, partition or volume, such as create partition, resize partition, delete partition and more. In addition, if your USB flash drive, SD card, or external hard drive doesn’t work well, or Windows fails to format, it is a possible way to clean the drive or remove all partitions on the drive by using disk clean command, just run CMD, type “diskpart“>”list disk“>”select disk n“>”clean“.

10 Command Prompt Tricks that Every Windows Users Should Know 3 years 29 weeks ago

Many people are familiar with Command Prompt. But few of them know that a lot of things can be achieved via the Windows Command Prompt. Today, loads of cool Command Prompt tricks will be talked in this post of MiniTool. Check out this post now!
Command Prompt is a command line interpreter application available in most Windows operating systems such as OS/2, eComStation, Windows NT, Windows CE, and ReactOS operating systems. It is also known as CMD or cmd.exe. With Command Prompt, you can troubleshoot or solve all kinds of Windows issues via commands, such as hard drive errors, system file corruption and so on.

When Drive C Gets Red in Windows 7, Here Is a Good Solution 6 years 10 weeks ago

You may suddenly find drive C gets red in Windows 7 Explorer or Computer. At this time, many people take one of the these measures to deal with the issue:free up space by removing or deleting useless files, clean drive C using Windows built-in Disk Cleanup tool or third party cleaning program like CCleaner, or transfer files out from C drive to other drives or external device, and then delete original ones. Actually, we highly suggest enlarging C by taking free space from other partitions, if those partitions have much unused space left.Here are steps.