Disable auto-run of desktop cleanup wizard.
Windows provides you a facility to remove unused items and shortcuts from your desktop, which are not accessed from a long time.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
After a period of 60 days windows checks if there any files on your desktop that haven't been used for a long time. It's a help from windows to remove these files. The removed files are stored in a separate folder on desktop. This setting can disable the option to run desktop cleanup. However, this setting will not stop you from cleaning the desktop manually. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value norun, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can disable the cleanup wizard on your desktop. However, if you want to enable the wizard back, change the value to 0. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
After a period of 60 days windows checks if there any files on your desktop that haven't been used for a long time. It's a help from windows to remove these files. The removed files are stored in a separate folder on desktop. This setting can disable the option to run desktop cleanup. However, this setting will not stop you from cleaning the desktop manually. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value norun, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can disable the cleanup wizard on your desktop. However, if you want to enable the wizard back, change the value to 0. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz\]</b> , right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "NoRun" in "CleanupWiz" key.
Next, right-click on "NoRun" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value User "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: NoRun
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 1
- Disabled Value: 0
- Action Type: Modified
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