- Disk Cleanup function
- Posted by alanpp on June 22nd, 2008
Generally I try to run the Disk Cleanup feature along with all my other
maintenance (defrag, spyware sweeps, backup) once a week.
This week I went in to run the Disk Cleanup function (which normally takes
no more than a few minutes) and it does not seem to want to complete.
The popup tells me that the utility is on "Compress old files" but it never
gets beyond that. Literally two hours later it is still on "Compress old
files". Since there is no feedback in the popup, no indication of what it is
trying to compress or even if it is actually working, I was hoping someone
could give me an idea as to what I can do to either discover what the holdup
is, or push the program past the bottleneck.
I am running XP Version 2002, SP2, on a Pentium 4, 3.00 GHz, 3GB RAM
The only oddity I noticed is when the initial popup indicating space to be
recovered comes up, the "Compress old files" number was 27,175,71 (That's not
a typo, there was no 8th digit).
- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on June 22nd, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812248
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- Posted by Kelly on June 22nd, 2008
Merge the edit on line 48 (right hand side):
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
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- Posted by alanpp on June 22nd, 2008
Thanks for the info. I have now been able to run the Disk Cleanup without
freezing.
However, I note that the "Compress Old Files" function no longer shows in
the Cleanup operation. Is this temporary, or has it been permanently removed
as a step in the Cleanup operation?
- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on June 23rd, 2008
Disk Cleanup still works, but the "Compress Old Files" handler is removed
from Disk Cleanup options, as selecting that option slows up the cleanup
work.
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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