Note that these “records” kept getting broken over and over again, to the point where (by October 2006) I decided to stop maintaining the top 10 lists.
I show these just to give you an idea of what can be achieved with CleanUp!:
Top 10 disk space recoveries
The following are some of the best results using CleanUp! to free disk space that users have reported. If you recovered more than 1.2 GB then let me know (see Take the CleanUp! Challenge for details).
One user recently reported freeing up 12.6 GigaBytes of disk space on a 16.6 GB hard drive. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to send me the log file, so does not get included in this top 10 list.
You might also be interested in looking at the top 10 file recoveries to see the number of files CleanUp! was able to delete from some users machines.
| Disk Space Recovered by CleanUp! | Files Deleted | Date | User | CleanUp! version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.26 GB | 225,578 | Apr. 29, 2005 | DG | 4.0 |
| 33.07 GB | 1,350,438 | Aug. 19, 2006 | SD / CTC | 4.0 |
| 29.75 GB | 304,048 | Aug. 26, 2006 | RW | 4.5.2 |
| 26.93 GB | 872,611 | Sep. 2, 2006 | Amanda | 4.5.2 |
| 24.95 GB | 36,706 | Jul. 10, 2006 | TC | 4.0 |
| 23.37 GB | 3,110 | Jun. 3, 2005 | FR | 4.0 |
| 15.52 GB | 8,643 | Aug. 20, 2006 | PP | 4.5.2 |
| 9.95 GB | 155,050 | Apr. 21, 2005 | dgill | 4.0 |
| 6.81 GB | 101,202 | May 11, 2005 | DG | 4.0 |
| 6.74 GB | 17,770 | May 4, 2005 | DJS | 4.0 |
Top 10 file recoveries
The following are some of the best results using CleanUp! to delete files that users have reported. Notice that the top recoveries exceed quarter of a million files – that’s a lot of junk that Windows and Windows programs leave behind. That’s why you need something like CleanUp! If you managed to recover more than 50,000 files using CleanUp! then let me know (see Take the CleanUp! Challenge for details).
You might also be interested in looking at the top 10 disk space recoveries.
| Disk Space Recovered by CleanUp! | Files Deleted | Date | User | CleanUp! version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33.07 GB | 1,350,438 | Aug. 19, 2006 | SD / CTC | 4.0 |
| 26.93 GB | 872,611 | Sep. 2, 2006 | Amanda | 4.5.2 |
| 29.75 GB | 304,048 | Aug. 26, 2006 | RW | 4.5.2 |
| 1.24 GB | 292,463 | Jun. 2, 2005 | JV | 3.1.x |
| 339.6 MB | 285,854 | Oct. 12, 2001 | WC | pre 3.0 |
| 3.29 GB | 264,392 | Aug. 10, 2006 | JG | 4.5.2 |
| 2.06 GB | 260,402 | May 24, 2005 | MH | 4.0 |
| 45.26 GB | 225,578 | Apr. 29, 2005 | DG | 4.0 |
| 1.62 GB | 222,768 | Sep. 20, 2001 | LTx | pre 3.0 |
| 716.1 MB | 205,611 | Sep. 21, 2001 | F | pre 3.0 |