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When I run Disk Cleanup, it says it is scanning the disk, and I hear
disk working noises, but in just a couple of seconds it presents me with
its list of proposed files to delete.
It *never* offers to compress old files, though I certainly have files
that qualify. Just to test it, I clicked on the Options button and
changed the default "age" of files to compress to 7 days instead of 50.
Disk Cleanup *still* didn't find any to offer me.
And it *always* finds the same 32KB of WebClient/Publisher temporary
files. It claims to delete these and a progress bar is shown, but run
the program again and there they are, back again.
The program fails to find over 1MB in Downloaded Program Files,
temporary files and temporary internet files.
I have Googled but can't find anything except problems with the program
hanging, which isn't happening here. I downloaded a new copy of
Cleanmgr.exe from Kelly's Korner, line 84, and ran it from my download
folder, but its behaviour was exactly the same, which makes me think the
problem must be with my computer. I've also tried disabling my
anti-virus monitor (AMON, Nod32) while running it, but it made no
difference.
I looked in the Registry and found
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\cleanuppath
which reads:
Default REG_EXPAND_SZ %SystemRoot%\system32\cleanmgr.exe /D %c
which looks okay.
Has anybody any ideas on what could be wrong, please?
--
Nightowl
When I run Disk Cleanup, it says it is scanning the disk, and I hear
disk working noises, but in just a couple of seconds it presents me with
its list of proposed files to delete.
It *never* offers to compress old files, though I certainly have files
that qualify. Just to test it, I clicked on the Options button and
changed the default "age" of files to compress to 7 days instead of 50.
Disk Cleanup *still* didn't find any to offer me.
And it *always* finds the same 32KB of WebClient/Publisher temporary
files. It claims to delete these and a progress bar is shown, but run
the program again and there they are, back again.
The program fails to find over 1MB in Downloaded Program Files,
temporary files and temporary internet files.
I have Googled but can't find anything except problems with the program
hanging, which isn't happening here. I downloaded a new copy of
Cleanmgr.exe from Kelly's Korner, line 84, and ran it from my download
folder, but its behaviour was exactly the same, which makes me think the
problem must be with my computer. I've also tried disabling my
anti-virus monitor (AMON, Nod32) while running it, but it made no
difference.
I looked in the Registry and found
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\cleanuppath
which reads:
Default REG_EXPAND_SZ %SystemRoot%\system32\cleanmgr.exe /D %c
which looks okay.
Has anybody any ideas on what could be wrong, please?
--
Nightowl