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How to Save Your Cleaning Selections in Easy System Utility

Easy System Utility lets you save the Windows and software cleaning options you use most often. This means you do not have to select the same temporary files, browser caches and other cleanup locations every time you open the program.

Saved selections are useful for regular manual cleanups and are also used by the automatic cleaning features included with Easy System Utility PRO.

This guide explains how to choose your cleaning options, save them and update the selections later.

What are saved cleaning selections?

The Clean section contains separate options for Windows and supported software.

You may only want to clean certain types of data, such as:

Windows temporary files
Thumbnail cache
Crash dump files
Windows Error Reports
Recycle Bin contents
Browser cache files
Discord cache
Custom cleaning locations

The Save Selections button stores the checkboxes you have chosen.

When you return to the Clean section later, Easy System Utility can load those selections so you can analyse or clean the same locations again without setting everything up from the beginning.

Open the Clean section

To choose your cleaning selections:

Open Easy System Utility.
Select Clean from the left-hand menu.
Make sure the Windows list is open.
Tick the Windows cleaning categories you want to use.
Switch to Software.
Select the browser and application data you want to clean.

The Windows and Software selections are saved together.

Make sure you check both lists before clicking Save Selections.

Choose your Windows cleaning options

The Windows list contains cleanup locations created or used by Windows.

Depending on the current Easy System Utility version, the available selections may include:

Clipboard
Crash Dump Files
Delivery Optimisation Files
DirectX Shader Cache
DNS Cache
Downloaded Program Files
Prefetch Files
Recent Files
Recycle Bin
Temporary Files
Thumbnail Cache
Windows Cryptnet URL Cache
Windows Data Usage
Windows Defender Backup Files
Windows Error Report Archive
Windows Log Files
Custom Locations

You do not need to select every option.

A sensible regular cleanup might include temporary files, thumbnail cache, crash dumps and Windows Error Report files.

Choose the categories that match how you use your computer.

Choose your software cleaning options

Select Software underneath the cleaning list to view supported applications and browsers.

The list may include options for programs such as:

Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Brave
Discord
Battle.net
Blender
LibreOffice

Some applications have several separate cleaning choices.

For browsers, these may include:

Cache
Login data
Session data
Form history
Top sites
Visited links

For a normal browser cleanup, selecting the cache is usually the best place to start.

Be more careful with login, session and history options because these can affect saved website information, active sessions or recently used pages.

How to save your selections

Once you have chosen the Windows and Software options you want:

Review the Windows cleaning list.
Review the Software cleaning list.
Make sure no unwanted options are ticked.
Select Save Selections.
Allow Easy System Utility to store the settings.

Your selected cleaning categories will then be available for future cleanup sessions.

You can still change the checkboxes before running an analysis or cleanup.

Analyse your selections before cleaning

After saving your choices, click Analyze.

Easy System Utility will check the selected Windows and software locations without deleting anything.

This gives you a chance to confirm that:

The expected cleaning categories are selected
The amount found looks reasonable
Browser login or session data is not selected accidentally
Custom Locations are only included when intended
The saved setup is suitable for regular use

Once you are happy with the result, click Clean.

Do saved selections automatically clean the computer?

No. Saving the selections does not immediately remove any files.

In Easy System Utility Free, the saved options are ready for the next time you manually click Analyze or Clean.

Easy System Utility PRO can also use the saved selections for automatic cleaning.

This means saving your selections and starting a cleanup are two separate actions.

How to change your saved selections

You can update the saved setup at any time.

To change it:

Open the Clean section.
Tick any new categories you want to add.
Untick anything you no longer want to clean.
Check both Windows and Software.
Click Save Selections again.

The new setup will replace the previous selections.

Run Analyze afterwards to check what the updated cleaning choices find.

Can you temporarily change the checkboxes?

Yes.

You can change the selected options for a particular cleanup without necessarily wanting to use them every time.

For example, you may normally clean temporary files and browser caches, but occasionally want to include the Recycle Bin.

If you want the change to be temporary, adjust the checkbox and run the cleanup without saving the new selection.

If you click Save Selections, the current setup becomes the one Easy System Utility remembers.

Browser cache, login data and session information are different types of data.

Saving browser login or session options means they can be included again during future cleanups.

This may result in:

Websites signing you out
Open tabs not being restored
Saved sessions being cleared
Form suggestions being removed
Frequently visited sites changing

If you only want to remove temporary website files, save the browser cache selections and leave login or session data unticked.

Saving Custom Locations

The Custom Locations checkbox can also be saved.

This option processes folders you have manually added under:

Settings > Include Locations

Before saving Custom Locations, check every folder in the Include Locations list.

Only save this option when all included folders contain data you are comfortable removing regularly.

Avoid using broad personal folders such as:

Documents
Desktop
Pictures
Videos
Downloads
Backup folders

A dedicated temporary folder is much safer for repeated cleaning.

How excluded folders affect saved selections

Folders added under Exclude Locations remain protected during supported cleaning operations.

The saved selections determine which cleaning categories Easy System Utility checks. The exclusion list determines which specific folders should be skipped.

For example, you could save a software cache selection while excluding one application folder that contains important local data.

Review your exclusions occasionally, especially after changing your saved cleaning setup.

Saved selections and Easy System Utility PRO

Easy System Utility PRO uses your saved selections when running Automatic Cleaning.

Automatic Cleaning can be configured to run:

Daily
Weekly
Monthly

PRO users can also choose to clean their saved selections when Windows starts.

This makes the Save Selections button particularly important for PRO users because the automatic cleaner needs to know which Windows and software locations it should process.

Check your saved selections before enabling Automatic Cleaning

Before turning on an automatic schedule:

Open the Clean section.
Review every Windows selection.
Review every Software selection.
Check Include Locations.
Check Exclude Locations.
Run a manual analysis.
Complete one manual cleanup.
Confirm that the result is what you expected.
Save the selections.
Enable the automatic schedule.

Running the setup manually first gives you a chance to find any selections that should be changed before the cleaner begins running automatically.

What happens if you add another included folder later?

If Custom Locations is already part of your saved selections, adding a new folder under Include Locations may cause that folder to be processed during the next cleanup.

This is particularly important when Automatic Cleaning is enabled.

Whenever you add a new custom folder:

Check the complete folder path
Confirm that its contents can be removed
Run a manual analysis
Test the cleanup before relying on automation

The saved Custom Locations checkbox applies to the folders currently listed in Settings.

Should the Recycle Bin be saved as a regular selection?

That depends on how you use it.

The Recycle Bin gives you a chance to restore files that were deleted through Windows. Cleaning it removes those files from the Recycle Bin.

Saving this option is convenient if you regularly want the Recycle Bin cleared as part of your PC cleanup.

Leave it unticked if you prefer to review deleted files manually before emptying it.

It is especially important to think about this before including the Recycle Bin in automatic cleaning.

Should browser history be saved?

Browser history, visited links and session data are not required for a normal cache cleanup.

Only save them when you deliberately want this information removed regularly.

For many users, a sensible saved browser setup will include cache files but leave login, session and history options unticked.

This allows temporary browser data to be cleaned without repeatedly affecting sign-ins or browsing sessions.

Why did Easy System Utility not remember a selection?

If a checkbox is no longer selected after reopening the program, check the following.

Save Selections was not clicked

Changing the checkboxes alone may not store the updated setup.

Click Save Selections after making the changes.

Easy System Utility was closed too quickly

Allow the save action to finish before closing the program.

The program could not save its settings

Try opening Easy System Utility as an administrator and saving again.

The settings were reset or removed

Reinstalling Windows, removing application data or using another cleaning tool may remove locally stored settings.

You are using a different Windows account

Cleaning selections may be stored separately for different Windows user accounts.

Why did an automatic cleanup use the wrong options?

Automatic Cleaning uses the selections saved in the Clean section.

If it processes something unexpected:

Turn off Automatic Cleaning temporarily.
Open the Clean section.
Review the Windows list.
Review the Software list.
Check Custom Locations.
Untick the unwanted options.
Click Save Selections.
Run a manual analysis.
Re-enable the schedule after confirming the setup.

Also check whether someone else changed the settings on the same Windows account.

Do selections change after an update?

A normal Easy System Utility update should keep your saved cleaning choices.

However, a new version may add extra supported cleaning options.

New categories should be reviewed before being added to your usual setup.

After a larger update, it is a good idea to:

Check the Windows list
Check the Software list
Run Analyze
Review Include and Exclude Locations
Save the selections again if needed

A sensible saved cleaning setup

Every computer is different, but a straightforward regular setup could include:

Temporary Files
Thumbnail Cache
Crash Dump Files
Windows Error Report Archive
Selected browser caches
Selected software caches

Options such as the Recycle Bin, browser login data, session information and Custom Locations should be selected according to your own preferences.

There is no need to tick every box for Easy System Utility to provide a useful Windows disk cleanup.

Save time on future Windows cleanups

To save your cleaning selections:

Open Clean.
Choose the Windows categories you want.
Open Software and choose the supported application data you want.
Review login, session and history options.
Check your custom included and excluded folders.
Click Save Selections.
Run Analyze.
Clean when you are ready.

Saving a carefully chosen setup makes regular Windows junk file cleaning quicker and more consistent.

Easy System Utility Free lets you reuse the selections during manual cleanups, while Easy System Utility PRO can use them for scheduled and startup cleaning.

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