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Solve : Disk Cleanup via system tools lagging?

Answer» <html><body><p>Anyone know why my disk cleanup would keep lagging.  It gets to "<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/searching-1197083" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEARCHING">SEARCHING</a> yada yada" and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/never-570518" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NEVER">NEVER</a> comes up with the figues of what all can be cleaned out... I can let it sit there for hours... I am running windows 2000.  Same for XP and 2000...<br/><br/>The Disk Cleanup utility frees up space on a volume. To access the utility, open My Computer, right-click the drive you want to work on, click Properties, then select Disk Cleanup from the General <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/tab-25634" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TAB">TAB</a>. If the program hangs the system, the problem is most likely caused by the Disk Cleanup <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/wizard-744309" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WIZARD">WIZARD</a> checking for all files older than 50 days that it can compress. Disabling this behavior might improve the performance. To disable the behavior, perform the following steps: <br/>Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).<br/>Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files registry subkey, then select it.<br/>From the File menu, select Export.<br/>Enter a filename and location, then click Save.<br/>Delete the "Compress old files" registry subkey.<br/>Close the registry editor.<br/><br/>Try running CCLeaner over your system to remove <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/junk-526796" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about JUNK">JUNK</a> files.</p></body></html>


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