Disk Cleanup function

[Guest alanpp]

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]

Re: Disk Cleanup function

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812248

 

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

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"alanpp" <alanpp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> 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]

Re: Disk Cleanup function

 

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"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]

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]

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.

 

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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?