SysPurge

SysPurge: a Windows cleaning tool

Author

• @remusrigo
• @remusrigo

Features

• File System:
  • Temporary/Junk files: user and system Temp folders, log files, previous Windows installation (Windows.old)
  • Microsoft Windows: Jump Lists, Prefetch files, Recent Items, Windows Update cache
• Registry:
  • Run MRU
  • missing Shared DLL's
• Microsoft Apps:
  • .NET and Visual Studio telemetry data
  • DirectX (shader cache, Direct3D most recent application)
  • Event Viewer (logs)
  • Internet Explorer (cache, cookies, temporary files, typed URLs)
  • Microsoft Management Console (recent files)
  • OneDrive (temp)
  • PowerShell (console history)
  • Teams (cache)
  • Windows Media Player (recent files, URLs)
• Apps:
  • Adobe (recent files)
  • Google / Google Chrome (crash reports, Software Reporter Tool logs)
  • Java (cache)
  • Media Player Classic (recent files)
  • privacy.sexy (runs, logs)
  • Steam (appcache, dumps, traces)
• Options that need administrator rights are shown only when running as administrator
• Logs actions to a file
• Tested on:
  • Windows 10 Ent x64
  • Windows 11 Pro x64

User's Guide

See the User's Guide for downloads, runtimes, installation and usage.

Statistics

Roadmap

• 2026-07-25: Update: Change Clean Task to delete the parent folder if empty (optional)
• 2026-07-25: Add: Clear Previous Windows Installations folder
• 2026-07-25: Add: Clear OneDrive Temp folder
• 2026-07-25: Add: Clear Steam
• 2026-07-23: Update: Change UI: replace TreeView with Buttons / split into four categories
• 2026-07-21: Update: Change UI / split into two categories
• 2026-07-18: Add: Clear Google Chrome Software Reporter Tool logs
• 2026-07-18: Add: Clear privacy.sexy runs
• 2026-07-18: Add: Clear privacy.sexy logs
• 2026-06-30: Add: Log class to report errors/warnings/info
• 2026-06-30: Add: Clear Recent files
• 2026-06-30: Add: Clear PowerShell Console Host History
• 2026-06-14: Add: Clear Microsoft Teams cache
• 2026-06-13: Add: New Task for clearing folders to support multiple paths
• 2026-06-13: Add: BlueFlame.ico
• 2026-06-10: Add: libServices.vb
• 2026-06-10: Add: Updated Messages.vb constants
• 2026-06-10: Add: Create ListView groups and items at run-time
• 2026-06-10: New: Project started from scratch / Based on the Delphi version
• 2025-11-24: New: Project started from scratch
• 2013-03-14: Add: Background Worker
• 2013-03-13: Add: Delete all files in a folder
• 2012-04-21: Add: Clean Registry RunMRU
• 2012-04-21: Add: Background Worker
• 2012-04-21: Project started

History/Versions

• 2010-06-04: SysCleaner written in Delphi
• 2008-02-21: SysSweeper written in Delphi