Disc Clean up issue

[Leah]

When i do my routine disc cleanup , I have 10,900+ kb in the compressed file
that the disc clean up will not remove AT ALL. What can i do to get rid of
those files ?

 

[Frank Holman]

When i do my routine disc cleanup , I have 10,900+ kb in the compressed file
that the disc clean up will not remove AT ALL. What can i do to get rid of
those files ?

You boob... that listing is FOR COMPRESSING older, lesser-used files,
NOT for removing them. Compressing them gains you some space.

 

[Leah]

The compressed file has never had that high of content , and always emptied
the file when disc clean up was done leaving it at 0 kb , until a couple
months ago when internet explorer went mental and opened a hundred home pages
over and over. It had 200,000 + at that time , i got it down to 19,000, then
manage to get the amount down to 10,600 +. Now it is slowly increasing to the
10,900+ it is now , and will not empty like it SHOULD.

 

[Frank Holman]

The compressed file has never had that high of content , and always emptied
the file when disc clean up was done leaving it at 0 kb , until a couple
months ago when internet explorer went mental and opened a hundred home pages
over and over. It had 200,000 + at that time , i got it down to 19,000, then
manage to get the amount down to 10,600 +. Now it is slowly increasing to the
10,900+ it is now , and will not empty like it SHOULD.

No. It shouldn't. What you got rid of in the past were temporary
Internet files.

 

[Gerry]

Leah


cCleaner (freeware) which does a more thorough job than Disk CleanUp.
Disk CleanUp has to be run for each user profile, whereas cCleaner only
needs to be run once.
http://www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asp
http://www.ccleaner.com/

When using cCleaner think twice before checking Autocomplete Form
History under Internet Explorer. You do get a warning but this one has
irritating consequences. You may need to restore your system's
recollection of passwords after use so keep a record off computer so
that they can easily be re-entered.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Olórin]

The compressed file has never had that high of content , and always
emptied the file when disc clean up was done leaving it at 0 kb

What "file" is this - do you mean "folder"? Which one?
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until a couple months ago when internet explorer went mental and
opened a hundred home pages over and over. It had 200,000 + at that
time , i got it down to 19,000, then manage to get the amount down to
10,600 +. Now it is slowly increasing to the 10,900+ it is now , and
will not empty like it SHOULD.

Do you realise that you're talking under about approximately 11 megabytes of
space? This really isn't very much at all by today's standards. Are you
really that desperate for room, or just particularly keen to get rid of
every last file you can? If the former, you need to do some serious
housekeeping or just buy a new hard drive; if the latter, you're confusing
deleting files with compressing them. See Gerry's post about CCleaner.

Do you know what caused Internet Explorer to go "mental" in the way you
describe? Malware can do that - do you have adequate protection against it?

Oh, and I'd ignore Holman's rudeness; he doesn't seem to have much history
in the XP groups, and what there is isn't a model of politeness.

 

[Leah]

Thank you I will check that ccleaner out. I realize it's not much space
being used , and any additional files that get added to it always delete ,
but there is always 10,950 kb that will always remain.I'm not sure what
caused windows explorer to do that.I have dial up internet , and it wasn't
connected at the time , and my son clicked the explorer icon, and it keep
searching for a connection , i would close the page and 5 more would open ,
and it just keep going , it took 20 min to get them all closed. now i mainly
run firefox for my browser , cause explorer just gives me grief..it won't
open, and if it does i can't get it to close . So i don't use it unless i
absolutely have to.

 

[Gerry]

Leah

Just run the Cleaner ( not the Registry component ) in cCleaner.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Olórin]

Do you have protection against viruses and other malware? Do you run a
firewall?

 

[Leah]

Thank you Gerry i ran the ccleaner , unfortunately it didn't solve the issue
, although it improved my computer performance. For Olorin Yes i do have
firewall and anti virus . It still has the same amount remaining everytime as
well as a Webclient/Publisher Temp file that has 32 kb in it also remain ,
but that i don't care about . It is just annoying that all of a sudden it
won't delete. ??????

 

[Olórin]

Where exactly are these files and what are they called? As you're so keen to
be rid of them, what happens when you simply try to delete them "manually"?
(ie by locating them in Windows Explorer, enabling the viewing of hidden
files and folders if necessary, and simply deleting them)

 

[Gerry]

Olórin

If you select Disk CleanUp and select C it runs and provides a window
giving details of savings which can be made. Use the scroll bar and you
will see the item Leah is referring to. Mine says 32 kb. Check the box
before Webclient/Publisher and run Disk CleanUp. Run it again and here I
find that it still shows 32 kb. I think that is Leah's complaint and I
cannot see an explanation.


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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Leah]

Still having the same issues , except now it's almost at 12,000 kb and a
temp file is holding content as well and won't delete anymore. Any ideas as
to what could be causing this to happen ??????

 

[betty mason]

You boob... that listing is FOR COMPRESSING older, lesser-used files,
NOT for removing them. Compressing them gains you some space.