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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 10:56 am
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Posted by Frank (5 messages posted)

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

On Saturday, July 19, 2003 at 12:43 pm, daniel wrote:
>I have a problem with disk-clean up. Its starts 'compress old files', gets as far
>as three dots on the status bar and hangs up. I can cancel it but have to manually
>kill 'cleanmngr' in the system processes list. This happens every time so I can't
>actually run the disk clean-up.
>
>I also have easy CD creator 5 installed. It gave a XP incompatible error on installation
>but seems to run ok.
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (daniel: Saturday, July 19, 2003 at 12:43 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (G.Man: Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 5:21 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Tony: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 11:27 pm)

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Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (M. Armijo: Tue, Jan 29, 2002, 11:28 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (permaculture: Wed, Feb 27, 2002, 8:23 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (jason z: Fri, Mar 1, 2002, 12:04 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Chris: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 10:36 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Jack Synovec: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 6:47 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Doug: Sun, Apr 7, 2002, 5:41 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (daniel: Sat, Jul 19, 2003, 12:43 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Frank: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 10:56 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (G.Man: Sun, Aug 24, 2003, 5:21 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Tony: Tue, Jan 27, 2004, 11:27 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (ken allison: Thu, Dec 25, 2003, 5:24 pm)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Frank: Mon, Jun 24, 2002, 10:32 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Su: Tue, Jun 25, 2002, 5:25 pm)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (flace: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 9:19 pm)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Frank: Wed, Oct 9, 2002, 3:00 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (kevin: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 2:14 pm)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Mike: Sat, Oct 12, 2002, 8:56 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (badluck: Wed, Jun 18, 2003, 10:20 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Robert: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 9:38 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Frank: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 10:42 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (david rnenberg: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 2:18 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Frank: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 10:33 am)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Charles McPartland: Wed, Jan 21, 2004, 5:03 pm)

re: Solution to ''Compress old Files'' (Shaun: Wed, Jan 21, 2004, 9:42 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Stan: Sat, Oct 12, 2002, 5:57 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Roger: Sat, Jan 25, 2003, 11:58 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (None: Wed, Feb 19, 2003, 8:56 am)

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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Warren O: Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 8:47 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Shaun: Wed, Jan 21, 2004, 9:44 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Spooky: Thu, Mar 18, 2004, 1:55 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (rob: Mon, Aug 9, 2004, 4:59 am)

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