Windows Cleaner

Windows Cleaner, an Windows optimize scripts, which can scan and delete rubbish files or serach big files. This scirpts was an improvements veision of the PyOptimize

Requirements

In Python 2.7. The modules used are as follows:

Tkinter
tkMessageBox
tkSimpleDialog
os
os.path
threading

Installation

Command-line tools

Clone this repo and run the WindowsCleaner.py

$ git clone git@github.com:vanyoung/WindowwsCleaner.git
$ python WindowsCleaner.py
# command 'sudo' may be needed

Download on website

Visit https://github.com/Vanyoung/WindowsCleaner and download the ZIP, unzip the file and run the WindowsCleaner.py

Usage

Delete rubbish files
- Choose the ‘Clean up’ menu
  - Click the 'Scan rubbish' button to scan rubbish files
  - Click the 'Del rubbish' button to delete rubbish files
Search big files
- Choose the 'Search file' menu
  - Click the 'Scan big file' button and set the file size to be scanned to scan big files
  - Click the 'Search file by name' button and set the file name to be searched to search the file you want

Scannig area

The GetDirvers() function will scan all the Drives in Windows def GetDrives(): drives = [] for i in range(65,91): vol = chr(i) + ':/' if os.path.isdir(vol): drives.append(vol) return tuple(drives)

Customization

You can set your own rubbish-file list by modifying rubbishExt on the 10 line of the source code

rubbishExt = ['.tmp','.bak','.old','.wbk','.xlk','._mp','.gid','.chk','.syd','.$$$','.@@@','.~*']

DO NOT ADD SYSTEM-CRITICAL FILES

TODOs

Set your own rubbish-file list.
Add system-critical files~into rubbishExt. (It's a dangerous and most of the time the system does not allow this.)

Precautions

If the file name is in CJK will lead to the output file name garbled.

License

MIT. See LICENSE file.

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