(unofficial) Choco Cleaner (Script + Task)

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### [choco://choco-cleaner](choco://choco-cleaner)

To use choco:// protocol URLs, install [(unofficial) choco:// Protocol support ](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/choco-protocol-support)

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## DO YOU WANT TO RECOVER SOME DISK SPACE USED BY UNNECESSARY RESIDUAL CHOCOLATEY FILES?

## YOU JUST FOUND THE EASY WAY!

#### This package creates a Windows Scheduled Task to run Choco-Cleaner.ps1 every Sunday at 11:00 PM.

## **BEFORE and AFTER Choco-Cleaner: (198 packages installed and does not include temp folder deletions.)**

 

**Sure, you're probably not going to get gigabytes of space back, but every few KB matters on some computers and to some people! Due to [slack space](https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/slack-space.htm) small files such as 6 byte .ignore files actually take up 4 KB of HDD space each.**

## FEATURES:

Set it and forget it! **Choco-Cleaner** cleans up your Chocolatey installation every Sunday at 11 PM in the background so you don't have to be bothered with it.

**Choco-Cleaner** is completely configurable, just run **Choco-Cleaner -EditConfig** and read the comments. Most options are enabled by default.

**Choco-Cleaner deletes:**

* .log files that are not the most current one (NOT default)

* .zip and various archive files left over from packages that forgot to delete them post install

* .zip.txt and other archive-extensions.txt are lists of files that were extracted from an archive file for installation (NOT default)

* .msi, .msu, and .msp are Microsoft intall packages left over from packages that forgot to delete them post install

* .ignore files that are created to not shim executables during package install but not needed after shim operations are finished (This may change in a future version of Chocolatey.)