Help! my harddrive space is being eaten up

[Guest]

i'm having a problem with the windows disk cleanup utility in windows XP.
the disk clnup stops at the scanning process(at the compress old files)
forever and it seems to do nothing for which i've to end it through task
manager as cancelling it doesn't quits it and it keeps running in the
background utilizing 100% of the CPU. it happens every time and i can't
figure a way out. there are no spyware or stuff like that in my pc as i've
got mcafee security center installed.
i'm facing this problem for about 2 months and now it unneeded files have
eaten upto more than a GB of space of my HDD...if anyone has a solution plz
send it a.s.a.p and help me getting rid of this problem

 

[Kaylene aka Taurarian]

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

Disk Cleanup Utility Stops Responding
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812930

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

Disk Cleanup - Compressed Old Files Freezes (Line 48)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and answer
yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by right clicking on the
file and selecting Edit.

Restore Disk Cleanup - cleanmgr (Line 84)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm