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# How to run Quick Cleanup from the eclean dashboard

Quick Cleanup is the fastest cleanup action on the Home dashboard. It is meant for a simple temporary-file cleanup when you do not need the full category review that Junk Cleaner provides.

| Quick Cleanup is convenient, but it is not the same as a full Junk Cleaner scan. It targets the Windows temporary folder only.

### How to run Quick Cleanup

1. **Open Home:** Go to the eclean Home dashboard.
2. **Find Quick Cleanup:** Look for the cleanup card or action on the dashboard.
3. **Start the cleanup:** Click **Clean now** on the Quick Cleanup card.
4. **Wait for the result:** Let eclean finish the cleanup before starting another cleanup action.
5. **Review the outcome:** Check whether eclean reports files removed, bytes freed, or failed paths.
6. **Use Cleaner for deeper review:** Open Junk Cleaner if you want category selection and a results screen before cleaning.

### When Quick Cleanup is enough

* Use it when you want a fast temporary-folder cleanup.
* Use Junk Cleaner when you want to choose categories and review scan results before cleaning.
* If eclean reports failed paths, the files may be locked, already gone, or blocked by permissions.

### Technical deep dive

#### What Quick Cleanup cleans

Quick Cleanup looks for the Windows temporary folder from the current environment. It first checks the `TEMP` environment variable. If that is not available, it falls back to `TMP`.

If eclean cannot read the temporary folder path or Windows reports that the folder is not accessible, Quick Cleanup stops and reports an error instead of guessing another location.

#### How Quick Cleanup scans files

After eclean finds the temp folder, it scans inside that folder recursively. The scan starts below the temp folder itself and collects file paths, not folders. It calculates the total size of the files it found so the cleanup result can report how much space was freed.

#### How Quick Cleanup deletes files

Quick Cleanup sends the collected file paths through eclean's file shredder system with the **Quick** deletion method. In this mode, eclean uses normal file-system deletion instead of secure multi-pass overwrite.

Before deleting, eclean checks that each path still exists and is a file. It also uses the same destructive-path safety checks as File Shredder and skips shortcut files that end in `.lnk`.

The deletion work is split across available CPU threads so large temp folders can be handled faster. If a file fails to delete, eclean keeps the path and error message in the result instead of treating the whole cleanup as failed.

#### What Quick Cleanup saves to history

If Quick Cleanup removes at least one file, eclean creates a Cleaner History entry with:

* category ID `temp_cleaner`,
* category name `Quick Clean`,
* the number of files removed,
* the number of bytes freed.

If no files are removed, eclean does not add a new Cleaner History entry for that run.

#### Why some files may not be removed

Temporary files can be locked by running apps, antivirus tools, installers, browsers, or Windows itself. If a file is in use or blocked by permissions, eclean may leave it in place and include it in the failed paths list.

That usually means the file should be retried later, after closing apps or restarting Windows. It does not necessarily mean Quick Cleanup is broken.