Guest alanpp Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 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).
Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 Re: Disk Cleanup function http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812248 -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com "alanpp" <alanpp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7D464772-1B08-4B95-8430-34C8F3098779@microsoft.com... > 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). > >
Guest Kelly Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 Re: Disk Cleanup function Merge the edit on line 48 (right hand side): http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm SupportSpace http://www.supportspace.com/pages?aiu=kellyskorner "alanpp" <alanpp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7D464772-1B08-4B95-8430-34C8F3098779@microsoft.com... > 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). > >
Guest alanpp Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 Re: Disk Cleanup function 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?
Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 Re: Disk Cleanup function 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. -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com "alanpp" <alanpp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0D2AF384-255D-41BE-9661-4BDAEB1DD95D@microsoft.com... > 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?
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