- Disc cleanup...
- Posted by irish14500 on November 11th, 2005
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.
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"...I Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny..."
- Posted by kenchi on November 11th, 2005
irish14500 Wrote:
> 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.
> --
> "...I Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny..."
Try using something like CCleaner and see if u can delete those files.
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kenchi
- Posted by maryItaly on February 6th, 2006
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.
"irish14500" wrote:
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on February 7th, 2006
The Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;823302
Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;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
In news
254D656-A016-42DC-A9A5-F51A40686AEA@microsoft.com,
maryItaly <maryItaly@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
- Posted by Albert on February 12th, 2006
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?"
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Bert
"maryItaly" wrote: