Disk Cleanup - calculation takes forever

[Guest]

Whenever I open Disk Cleanup, it says it is calculation how much space I will
be able to free up... which is normal.
But the actualy calculation/scanning either freezes up or will continue to
scan until I exit it and I have never gotten past that window to actually use
the Disk Cleanup.

It takes 99 of my CPU usage so that the CPU usage is at 100% while it is
caculating. It will remain this way until I exit it.

Does anybody know how to get past this so that it will only take a little
while (a guy I know said his only takes about 60 seconds.)?? I have never
been able to run the actually Disk Cleanup because of this problem.

Please help!!
Thanks,
Liz

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link:

"Why does Disk Cleanup freeze?"
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

 

[Sharon F]

Whenever I open Disk Cleanup, it says it is calculation how much space I will
be able to free up... which is normal.
But the actualy calculation/scanning either freezes up or will continue to
scan until I exit it and I have never gotten past that window to actually use
the Disk Cleanup.

It takes 99 of my CPU usage so that the CPU usage is at 100% while it is
caculating. It will remain this way until I exit it.

Does anybody know how to get past this so that it will only take a little
while (a guy I know said his only takes about 60 seconds.)?? I have never
been able to run the actually Disk Cleanup because of this problem.

Please help!!
Thanks,
Liz

The freeze can be due to a corrupt temporary file or to improper registry
entries. URLs for articles about both situations with steps to fix:

Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=812248

The Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=823302

 

[Guest]

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Try this outstanding free software fore cleaning internet traces

 

[Guest]

Your Temporary Internet Files folder may contain corrupted files that Windows
Disk Cleanup can not delete. But, you can delete all the files in the
directories in the Content.IE5 directory with the DOS DEL command.

Create the following BAT file replacing the DIRnnnnn demo names with the
directories contained in your Content.IE5 directory.

Replace Owner with the user name.

cd\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5

cd DIR00001 > NUL
ECHO Y|DEL *.* > NUL

cd ..\DIR00002 > NUL
ECHO Y|DEL *.* > NUL

cd ..\DIR00003 > NUL
ECHO Y|DEL *.* > NUL

cd ..\DIR00004 > NUL
ECHO Y|DEL *.* > NUL

<repeat for each directory in Content.IE5>

exit

Note: When the first CD command executes, Content.IE5 is the current
directory. The subsequent CD commands include ..\ to go back up one level to
get back to the Content.IE5 directory.

Save this BAT file in case the problem ever happens again. Good luck.

 

[Jamie]

I have the very same problem but the computer witch I use dosen't have a
internet connection so I don't worry about the cokies etc. but HELP as well
needed!