Disk Clean up

[Patrick]

my disk clean up is taking forever to go through the
process. I gets stalled on scanning compressed old
files. How can I correct that, so that it doesn't stay on
there forever in a day. I don't believe I need my
compressed old files, if that might help. Please explain
to me in basic (elementary terms).

Thank you

 

[Emmers Presson [MSFT]]

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:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B50F5260-0C21-11D2-AB56-00A0C9082
678}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B50F5260-0C21-11D2-AB56-00A0C9082678}