Do you really need all of your internet temp files going back 2 years?

How about all those annoying thumbs.db files?

That program is called Hard Drive Power Wash. Let’s check it out.

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I started by downloading the free version of Hard Drive Power Wash fromhere.

Using this utility, I can schedule the clean up so it can be totally automated.

You know set it and forget it.

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Once you get this 2.05 MB file you will need to install it.

Then you will see a screen that looks like this.

That will get the ball rolling.

The file explorer on the Dell XPS 14 9440.

  • / *.bk!

It found a crap-load of files that after clicking through, seemed to be nothing that I needed.

Look through each tab and scroll through the files before giving it the OK to kill them.

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They are all selected by default.

You have buttons to select all or none at the bottom of your screen.

You will get your confirmation box alerting you that these files will really be deleted.

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Hit Yes and watch as it deletes them.

It runs through each segment like log files, images etc.

and deletes each file.

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My internet files took almost 10 minutes to delete on their own.

Can you imagine how much crap was in there?

When its done you will see a the first screen again now populated with your results.

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I got rid of a whopping 636 Megabytes!

I am super happy and off to schedule it from the program’s parameters:

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