Disk Cleanup does not work

[Guest]

When I try to use Disk Cleanup the subsrcreen pops up but it never completes
the analysis showing the results of files that can be erased. Any ideas?

Also, There are a few file in my temporary IE directories that I cannot
delete. The files names are very long and I cannot rename to shorter names.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

When I try to use Disk Cleanup the subsrcreen pops up but it never completes
the analysis showing the results of files that can be erased. Any ideas?

Also, There are a few file in my temporary IE directories that I cannot
delete. The files names are very long and I cannot rename to shorter names.

See tip 5920 » How do I speed up Disk Cleanup or possibly prevent it from hanging?
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

Try deleting them from a CMD.EXE prompt using wildcards. If their name started with abc, then

Del /q /f "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\abc*.*" /s

or

Del /q /f "\\.\%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\abc.*" /s

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jerold. I had trouble finding the correct path to the file so I cut
the subdirectory and pasted it to My Documents where I was able to delete as
normal. Removing these files also seemed to sovle my disk clenup from hanging
as well.