Disk cleanup / Compress old files freezes up

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Opinicus

I was doing some regular maintenance on my wife's machine today and when
Disk Cleanup got to the "Compress old files" part, about halfway through the
system froze up. A manual reboot was necessary and when the machine came
back it said that some "system dlls were missing". (Or words to that effect:
the message was in Turkish.)

I rebooted from the WinXP Home CD and entered the Recovery Console. After
pressing "R", there was a lot of disk activity as files were pulled off the
CD. After exiting and rebooting, WinXP came back up normally.

Curious about what happened, first I ran the defragmenter, which said the HD
needed to be defragmented. So I did. I rebooted and then ran Disk Cleanup
again, and again the system froze up midway through. Manual reboot. This
time when the machine came back it said that c:\windows\system32\hal.dll was
missing ("What are you doing, Dave?") and I was advised to reload it.

Another journey through the Recovery Console got everything back up again.
However I'm understandably leery about doing the cleanup thing again.

Does anybody have an idea about what's wrong and what should be done to
correct it? Or should I just forget about compressing old files on this
machine?
 
Good Morning,
There is a fix for this problem at www.kellys-korner.com if you will go
there and look around for it. In essence, it disables the compress function.
After that, the tool will execute less that function. I, and and many
others, had exactly the same problem you discribe. If I remember correctly,
you will also find this fix at www.dougknox.com [sorry I do not have the
exact links to give you].
Gene
 
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