Disc cleanup...

[Guest]

Hey all-

Question about disc cleanup. Several of my relatives are facing problems
when running disc cleanup and ridding the Compressed old files, even with all
of the boxes checked within the disc cleanup box. They are seeing upwards of
300,00 files after running disc cleanup. Apparently nothing they try will get
them off the machine. Any advice would be helpful of cleaning these off the
machine.

 

[kenchi]

Hey all-

Question about disc cleanup. Several of my relatives are facing
problems
when running disc cleanup and ridding the Compressed old files, even
with all
of the boxes checked within the disc cleanup box. They are seeing
upwards of
300,00 files after running disc cleanup. Apparently nothing they try
will get
them off the machine. Any advice would be helpful of cleaning these off
the
machine.

Try using something like CCleaner and see if u can delete those files.

 

[Guest]

I have recently discovered this same problem in disc cleanup and can't get
rid of my compressed files either. The progress bar indicates it is
performing the action but the compressed file space still shows as needing to
be done. I have no idea what Ccleanup is either.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

The Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823302

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

For an automated fix, look here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Read instructions at the top
Scroll down to:
# 48 Right hand side
Disk Cleanup-Compress Old Files Freezes

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

CCleaner can be downloaded free from www.ccleaner.com. It finds things.
AdWare does not and vise versa. Just be sure you look over the scan before
you hit "Do you want to delete?"