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re: Solution to ''Compress old Files''
Saturday, October 12, 2002 at 8:56 am
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Posted by Mike (1 messages posted)

This worked for me, too. Windows 2000 SP3 machine appearing to hang in Disk Cleanup many times, but Task Manager showed it as an active process using 95%+ of resources - EVEN AFTER THE TASK WAS CANCELLED!! Edited the Registry as instructed here and it seemed to eliminate the step of Compressing Files altogether - or else it went by so fast I didn't see it. Disk Cleanup process took about 10 seconds after Registry edit (and backup as Su wisely recommends). Mike

On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:32 am, Frank wrote:
>
>1. Type Regedit in Start - Run
>2. Navigate to
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVers
>i
>on\Explorer\Volume Caches
>3. Open "Compress Old Files" folder
>4. Delete all files in this folder
>5. Reboot
>6. Run Disk Cleanup
>

Written in response to:: re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Frank: Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:32 am)

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