Clean Disk Space using PowerShell.

Hi,

I wrote a simple PowerShell script which helps us to clean some of the disk space for us. This script wrote primarily for LENOVO laptops but can tweak it as per your requirements.

This Script does the following tasks:

• ·         Clean users TEMP folder
• ·         Empty Recycle Bin
• ·         Empty SWTOOL Folder {mainly in Lenovo laptops}
• ·         Empty Windows TEMP Folder
• ·         Run Windows  Disk Cleanup Tool.

I hope that you like this tiny script J

Download it from Here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Disk-Cleanup-Using-98ad13bc

Thanks

Aman Dhally

Delete Offline OST files from login users account using PowerShell.

Hi,

Yesterday I was surfing the TECHNET Script repository and see that one user is requested for a script which can delete offline email file {ost} from login users.

This seems simple to me and I wrote a 3line script which can accomplish this task.

Here is the script : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Delete-OST-from-User-App-22df1c88

1.  $OstPath = $Env:LocalAppData + "\Microsoft" + "\Outlook"

2.  $ost = get-ChildItem $OstPath | where { $_.Extension -eq ".ost"} 

3.  $ost | remove-Item -WhatIf ## remove -whatif to remove the files 

1.    In windows7 and with outlook 2010 installed the OST file are created in “C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook” folder. The $Env:LocalAppData windows environment variable contain the path of “C:\Users\aman.dhally\AppData\Local” and we added “\Microsoft” and “\Outlook” to make the complete path to the outlook folder.

2.    Secondly we are getting all files whose extension is equal .OST and saving the result in to the $ost variable

3.    Thirdly we are parsing the output of $ost to remove-Item to remove all files.

Screenshots:

Below is the path of my OST files.

 

See the default value of  $Env:LocalAppData data and the output of $OstPath when we added "Microsoft" and "Outlook" in to it.

$ost = get-ChildItem $OstPath | where { $_.Extension -eq ".ost"}  , and just see the output of $ost you can see that is is showing the name of all OST which we have in out outlook folder.

$ost | remove-Item -WhatIf

and this will remove the OST files :)

Download the script from here : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Delete-OST-from-User-App-22df1c88

Simple isn't:)

Note: I tested this script on Windows7 with Outlook 2010 installed.

Thanks

Aman Dhally

How to use –Exclude switch in Remove-Item cmdlet in PowerShell

Hi,
today i was trying to remove some junk folders and files in a  specific folder. But i don’t want to remove all of file and folder , i want to keep few folders. Then i think that i should use the –Exclude switch with Remove-Item Cmdlet.
I tried to use –Exclude switch but somehow i failed to get it working because i don't know the exact patter used by –Exclude switch. After few minutes of testing i get it done and i thought i should share this tip with you.

1. $Lenovo = "D:\P-Temp\Lenovo\*"
2. Remove-Item -Recurse  -Path $Lenovo -Exclude system,temp,updates.ser,"*.xml"   -Verbose –Force

In $Lenovo variable i specified the folder path in which I want to remove the items
I want to Exclude folder name “System”,”temp” and file name “updates.ser” and all .XML Files
in -Exclude switch give the folder name which you don’t want to delete,  no need to put the in a double quotes “” in folder name . You can provide multiple folder name separated by comma.
in pattern matching make sure you put the wild cards in double quotes “”.

Lets Test it !!
see we have System,Temp, few XML and one Updates.Ser file which we exclude to deleted. lets run the script now and see which file is getting deleted.

after running the script .
All folders are stay intact which we exclude in the Remove-Item cmdlet.

I hope that i helps someone .
thanks
aman dhally