"Disk Cleanup" not going anywhere?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:24 pm

XP Pro, P4, Asus P4P800

Trying to run disk cleanup before I defrag.

It begins running but just stays about 3 progress bars into the cleanup:

"Calculating...
Scanning: compress old files"

Cpu utilization stays pegged at 100% even with folding off.
Have run error check, thorough, in safe mode.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:39 pm

nevermind, I think I found it...bad registry entry for compressed files.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:20 pm

Mind sharing the key you found bad?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:23 pm

Originally posted by Snuf
Mind sharing the key you found bad?

Not at all...but I 'm not sure if I found the key per se or just the folder it was in...not used to any registry lingo.

Just followed the MS directions from their database and deleted the entry for software/MS/something/compressed folders and it rewrote it upon reboot...I can find the site again if you're interested.

No problems at all now.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:27 pm

This is another similar article in their knowledge base but not the same one:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;812248

basically the same in the long run.