I've tried scouring the web but turned up empty-turnipped. I throw myself at the mercy of the forum, as it were.
I'm not particularily immaculate over my computer but for the last six months I haven't been able to use Windows' "Disk Cleanup" in the "System Tools" folder. I activate it, it's supposed to do a quick lookaround for what it can rinse and then I'm supposed to get a small menu where I choose what to clean.
What happens after I click the shortcut is the small window says "compressing old files" prior to showing me the menu, but it just stays there ad infinitum. Windows Update has nothing and I found no fixes on the web.
What say you? (if you say "delete XP" I send your family to turkish prison, just so we're clear)
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
It would seem as though at some time in the past you selected the option to compress old files on your hard drive as part of Disk Cleanup. That is, of course, providing it'll stop compressing files eventually and it doesn't just hang.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
I tried the waiting game. I clicked the shortcut, it started "thinking", I left my flat for three hours and came back, still it was "thinking". And it's not as if the hard drive is rasping and churning, it's completely quiet, so the cleanup tool isn't doing anything.
To be clear, this stalemate isn't after I've clicked the execute-button to clean, this is before the cleanup tool has even finished assessing the hard drive and gotten to the menu.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Interesting. Never encountered this utility before. But it works for me. Have you tried manually going in and deleting files from the commonly-known problem areas - Temporary Internet Files, C:\Windows\Temp (or equivalent temporary folder), pre-install backups etc. and then running it again?