{"id":571,"date":"2012-03-13T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2018-09-06T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T23:16:00","slug":"how-to-add-disk-cleanup-tool-in-windows-server-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"How to add Disk Cleanup tool in Windows Server 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasmaurer.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cleanmgr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cleanmgr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomasmaurer.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cleanmgr-247x300.png\" alt=\"Cleanmgr\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disk Cleanup option on drive\u2019s general properties and\u00a0 cleanmgr.exe  is not present in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 by  default.So in order to use cleanmgr.exe you\u2019ll need to copy two files  that are already present on the server, cleanmgr.exe and  cleanmgr.exe.mui.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Copy  \u201cC:\\Windows\\winsxs\\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\\cleanmgr.exe\u201d  to \u201c%systemroot%\\System32\u2033<\/li>\n<li>Copy  \u201cC:\\Windows\\winsxs\\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\\cleanmgr.exe.mui\u201d  to \u201c%systemroot%\\System32\\en-US\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now you can launch the Disk cleanup tool (cleanmgr.exe) from the command prompt.<\/p>\n<p>You could also install the \u201cDesktop Experience\u201d feature this would  also work, but why install something if you don\u2019t need it, specially on a  server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk Cleanup option on drive\u2019s general properties and\u00a0 cleanmgr.exe is not present in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 by default.So in order to use cleanmgr.exe you\u2019ll need to copy two files that are already present on the server, cleanmgr.exe and cleanmgr.exe.mui. Copy \u201cC:\\Windows\\winsxs\\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\\cleanmgr.exe\u201d to \u201c%systemroot%\\System32\u2033 Copy \u201cC:\\Windows\\winsxs\\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\\cleanmgr.exe.mui\u201d to \u201c%systemroot%\\System32\\en-US\u201d Now you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}