Opening issues aside, Cleanup recommendations is not nearly as user friendly as the Disk Cleanup tool. The entire process is not as straightforward as using the Disk Cleanup tool. Disk Cleanup tool is the better application Select Cleanup recommendations and Windows displays cleanup options on the page that follows. It is necessary to open the main Storage page in the settings to get that option (or select Start > Settings > System > Storage). Options to cleanup files are not displayed on the page. It takes another click to display how storage is used on the drive. The page lists the capacity of all drives and the free and used storage ratio. While it is still possible to load Disk Cleanup directly, it is no longer possible to open it from a drive's properties dialog.Īctivation of the Storage usage button opens the Storage used on other drives page of the Settings application. Microsoft replaced the link to the Disk Cleanup tool with a link to Storage Sense in the latest Windows 11 build.

Up until now, Disk Cleanup was accessible from the Properties dialog window of drives.

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