Disk Cleanup Problems

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In the past, I routinely perform the "Disk Cleanup"
function in Windows to remove junk from my hard disk.
Unfortunately, Disk Cleanup does not seem to be working
correctly right now. It seems to hang at the beginning
of the process, with the statement "Scanning: Compress
old files" in the window.

Is there some reason for this problem to occur? Any
suggested fixes?

I'm running XP Pro on a Thinkpard R32.

Thanks,
Todd
 
-----Original Message-----
In the past, I routinely perform the "Disk Cleanup"
function in Windows to remove junk from my hard disk.
Unfortunately, Disk Cleanup does not seem to be working
correctly right now. It seems to hang at the beginning
of the process, with the statement "Scanning: Compress
old files" in the window.

Is there some reason for this problem to occur? Any
suggested fixes?

I'm running XP Pro on a Thinkpard R32.

Thanks,
Todd

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Here is the article for the registry fix of "compress old
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files";
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;812248
This is caused by the "compress old files" function of
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
 
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