| "jwh" <
[email protected]>
| Message | Just recently my clean disc function will not work. it
| opens and seems to start but then just 'hangs'. The
| whole system will then slow down to a crawl until I
| reboot.
|
| Any suggestions as to why? and how to fix this problem?
To quote a previous post on the subject:
----- Begin Original Message -----
From: Emmers Presson [MSFT]
Subject: Re: Disk Clean up
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Date: 2003-12-27 07:07:49 PST
Link to thread via Google Groups Archives:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=#[email protected]
The hang can be due to a corrupt compressed file. There are two
options, you can either manually uncompress all files and run disk
cleanup again, or you can remove the following registry values,
which eliminate the scanning for compressed files <SNIP>
----- End Original Message -----
For more information see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
KB812248 - Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While
Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;812248