WindowsClear
Also known as: 愚公移盘
Quiet · Source repository
MIT Rust Windows 'C-drive slimming' tool that frees the system disk without deleting anything: it scans %LOCALAPPDATA%/%APPDATA% for the biggest app-data folders, migrates them to another drive (e.g. D:\AppData) and leaves directory junctions so apps keep working - Windows Restart Manager handles locked files, rollback on failure, pause/resume transfers, bilingual CN/EN UI. README carries a paid MuskAI sponsorship banner with referral link. 1.2k stars but quiet since May 2026.
- Platforms
- Interface
- Tech stack
- Rust, multi-threaded (readme)
- Features
- Dev-junk cleaning
- Not a focus
- Development
- Unknown · leadership unknown
- License
- MITMIT (GitHub API)
- Price
- FreeFree and open source; README monetizes via a MuskAI referral sponsorship
- Launched
- repo_created_at
- Repo created
- GitHub stars
- 1,199 (as of 2026-10-31)
- First release
- Last seen alive
Checks
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| Track record | 283 days ago |
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| Source published | Not yet checked |
| Release signing | Not yet checked |
| Security contact | Not yet checked |
| Reproducible builds | Not yet checked |
| Telemetry | Not yet checked |
| Runs elevated | Not yet checked |
| Auto-update channel | Not yet checked |
| Recent activity | Last seen 175 days ago |
Research notes
- Mover, not deleter: junction-link migration of AppData folders to another disk - a genuinely different mechanism from every delete-based cleaner in the catalog.
- Sponsored by MuskAI ('integrated Claude Code, Codex, latest models') with a referral link - AI-tooling money reaches the cleaner niche.
- 1,174 stars but dormant: last push 2026-05-12, last release v0.1.3 (2026-03-18) of only four total.
- Second contributor '633h3njh3kkh' holds 16 of ~34 commits - a keyboard-mash username doing half the work.
- Name is a pun: 愚公移盘 'Yu Gong Moves the Disk', riffing on the 愚公移山 fable - the man who moved a mountain, now moving your AppData.
Sources
| URL | Role | Status | Checked | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/tanaer/WindowsClear | repo | 200 |
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