Cleaning windows - PED and WER

The first bit's about Power Efficiency Diagnostics, Windows Error Reporting is but a click away
Disclaimer

Power Efficiency Diagnostics is a program run by Task Scheduler. It may be useful in helping you set up a laptop but other than that it justs wastes disc space.
In any case you have to check the results yourself, there is no automation.
In any case² you have to know it exists.

Below I cleaned out a million or so .xml files but left the energy-report-latest.xml file after reading dire warnings on the web. I renamed the energy-ntkl.etl then manually started Power Efficiency Diagnostics.

So it still works ok but let's kill it

Do

Start Menu - Programs - Accessories - System Tools

and run

Task Scheduler

Find \Microsoft\Windows\Power Efficiency Diagnostics

Right click and choose Disable

Now you can clean out the detritus in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Power Efficiency Diagnostics

Windows Error Reporting is something to do with sending crash logs to you-know-who after programs have failed.

Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER and see something like this

Open those folders delete all the files, then use Task Scheduler to disable the program

Tada........

Disclaimation - It works for me on Windows 7, better make sure you know how to do a Windows Restore first.
Be sure to read the next instalment

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