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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 6:00 pm
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Posted by triplate (20096 messages posted)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Volume Caches... Delete the Compress old files registry key....and reboot.

On Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 3:34 pm, Mostafa Ghanei wrote:
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>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.

Written in response to:: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Mostafa Ghanei: Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 3:34 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (kitty: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 3:33 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (kitty: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 3:34 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (hopper33: Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 9:59 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (SheCanBuild: Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 1:19 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Menahse: Friday, February 24, 2006 at 5:04 am)

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Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Mostafa Ghanei: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 3:34 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (triplate: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 6:00 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (kitty: Wed, Jun 16, 2004, 3:33 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (kitty: Wed, Jun 16, 2004, 3:34 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (hopper33: Sat, Nov 6, 2004, 9:59 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (SheCanBuild: Sat, Jan 29, 2005, 1:19 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Menahse: Fri, Feb 24, 2006, 5:04 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Jann Padley: Fri, Aug 4, 2006, 10:46 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Sarah: Fri, Feb 23, 2007, 9:55 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (triplate: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 6:02 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Tamera: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 12:12 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (SheCanBuild: Sat, Jan 29, 2005, 1:43 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Bryan Max: Mon, Jul 18, 2005, 9:16 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Bryan Max: Mon, Jul 18, 2005, 9:54 am)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (sukiyakieangie: Thu, Jul 28, 2005, 3:27 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Jul 28, 2005, 7:50 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Ol' Brother Dave: Mon, Mar 19, 2007, 8:04 pm)

re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' (Walter Bradley: Tue, Mar 20, 2007, 3:24 am)

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