disk clean up

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Any reason why when I hit disk clean up in the system
tools menu,it starts but never finishes the clen up. It
works with other users on my computer, but not with me
(administrator).
 
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Any reason why when I hit disk clean up in the system
tools menu,it starts but never finishes the clen up. It
works with other users on my computer, but not with me
(administrator).
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This is caused by the "compress old files" function of
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disk cleanup tool scanning files and calculating for file
compression, assuming we all want to save space. Just
click your run, type in "regedit.exe" for the windows
registry editor, then click edit and find, and type
in "compress old files". Or just navigate to that sub-key
using this path here;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files. Then to be
safe, in the registry editor, select file from the top
menu, then export, and save that "compress old files"
subkey as a .reg file. Then delete only that registry
subkey, and disk clean up will run through quickly. Also
there is an option button after disk cleanup has run, when
you click to select the "compress old files" that allows
you to change the # of days for files to be "old", the
default is 50 days. But that option is only there if disk
cleanup runs through once with the "compress old
files" .reg key in. Also look here on line 48, right side
area for basically the same fix as mine is.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
and check this Microsoft article as well;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;812248
 
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