I found more help with this.

The post is here:  http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1020505770  

But I copied/pasted it below:

Saturday, May 4, 2002 at 2:49 am
Posted by Bor Greiner (3 messages posted) 

Hi,

This might work for you (if the computer hangs at 'scanning compressed files stage'):

1. Type Regedit in Start - Run 
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Volume 
Caches 
3. Export "Compress Old Files" folder (via right click)
4. Delete all entries in this folder 
5. Reboot 
6. Run Disk Cleanup
7. Import previous exported keys (by doubleclicking on exported .reg file)


Thanks to 'Bor Greiner', and everyone else that offers your help..









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

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