disc cleaner in XP doesn't work

[Carl]

Disc cleaner in XP Home no longer works. The progress bar
shows about 4 squares but never moves beyond. I ran easy
clean a while back and may have deleted a file I needed.
Any ideas? Defrag was also very slow today - about 1 1/2
hrs.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Hi,

Try the following web sites:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm, scroll down to Line #48. In
the right-hand window, click on "Disk Cleanup - Compress Old Files Freezes"

Simply click on Kelly's fix, download the registry fix, then run it

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

[Courtesy of Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP]