Compressing Old Files while Running Disk Cleanup Stop on Working

Asked By harisson 1440 points N/A Posted on - 04/23/2011

when i run disk clean up,  it gets to the first three bars when checking the files(status bar says "compress old files") and then just hang there? if i close it down and run it up again, then it just never comes up at all.

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Answered By fritz 0 points N/A #86616

Compressing Old Files while Running Disk Cleanup Stop on Working

• click start, and then click run
• type regedit, enter
• locate and then click the following registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerVolumeCaches

on the file menu, click export and then click desktop, type volume caches in the file name box, and then click save.

• expand the following registry key back
• delete the compress old file registry key
• quit registry editor

 

 

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Answered By harisson 1440 points N/A #86617

Compressing Old Files while Running Disk Cleanup Stop on Working

thank you fritz. this can be great..

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Answered By fritz 0 points N/A #86618

Compressing Old Files while Running Disk Cleanup Stop on Working

just follow the steps and take care because registry is dangerous.

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