A. A corrupt temporary file can often cause the disk cleanup utility to hang. To resolve this problem, try deleting all temporary files on your computer by performing the following steps:
- Close all running applications.
- From the Start menu, click Run and type
%temp%
to open the Temp folder on your computer.
- Type Ctrl+A or from the Edit menu click Select All to select all the files, press Delete, then click Yes to the confirmation.
- Close Windows Explorer.
- Open the Control Panel Internet Options applet.
- Select the General tab, then click Delete Files.
- Select the "Delete all offline content" check box, then click OK.
You should now be able to run the Disk Cleanup tool.
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Cleanup Acutally Hangs Up because Windows is going through a File Compression Method to determine how much space you can save or (make) on your drive if you allow it to compress old files.
You can turn this feature off. Go to explorer and right click on the C:Drive , Go to properties - and make sure that the COMPRESS DRIVE TO SAVE DISK SPACE IS UNCHECKED.
You can also turn this off (This is the method I used), but going into the registry and deleting the entry for disk Caching. There is a step by step procedure for this - do a google search for this process. Once you turn of Disk Compression - Disk Cleanup works superfast!
Slickwilly October 21, 2003