Automating Disk Cleanup on Windows using commandline

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I asked this question on the MSDN forums but there was no response. Maybe someone might be able to help me out here.

I am trying to run Disk Cleanup in the command prompt (and through a C# program) and so I went through all the available options from this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246

While I am just trying to understand what I can do, it would be good if someone could explain why the drive option /d cannot be set while specifying /sagerun:n

Or is it possible, by some way, to run /sagerun for a specific drive?

Thanks.

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