Re: Win XP Pro Cleanup options

From: Alan C. Brown (acbrown_at_intnet.mu)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:19:02 +0400

Thank you for your very helpful reply.

I did as you suggested, but the cleanup froze after about a minute.
Unfortunately I did not read the last part of your e-mail, which dealt with
exactly this problem.

 As a result, out of frustration, I tried to manually delete the contents of
the Temporay Internet Files folder with only partial success, in that only
about 1/3 (300MB) of the TIFs were deleted, and the other 2/3 (600 MB) could
not be seen in the TIF folder in Windows Explorer.

It was only after that happened that I read the last part of your e-mail,
and true enough, deleting the "Compress old files" registry key got rid of
the cleanup freeze problem. Unfortunately though, running "cleanup" again
only revealed the very recent TIFs created just prior to this cleanup.
However, now I could now see the previously hidden Content.IE5 folder and
all it's TIF sub-folders in Temporay Internet Files Folder, and I was able
to manually delete the TIFs in each TIF sub-folder, but leaving the
subfolders intact with their respective "desktop.ini" files.

Since doing that and browsing the web again, I cannot see the Content.IE
folder, or the TIF sub-folders in Windows Explorer, although I do get a
listing in the Temporary Internet Folder of the all the newly created TIFs.

Am I likely to experience any problems as a result of the messy way I
deleted
the TIFs ?

What a mess. More haste - less speed.

Alan C. Brown

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"Carrie Garth" <PostInGroup@invalid.cxg> wrote in message
news:eQAzffiKEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
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> The box that appeared with the "Scanning" Compressed old files" (and that
>you immediately cancelled out of) was only calculating how much space could
>be saved by compressing files. If you let this initial process complete
>you will get the Disk Cleanup Options dialog box where you can select what
>folders to clean (such as Temporary Internet Files and Recycle Bin), where
>you can view the files in the folders in question, where you can set an
>option for Compressing old file, and where you can Cancel Disk Cleanup
>(without performing any tasks at all).

>"Compress Old Files" is a Disk Cleanup function that (in the initial phase)
>searches the selected partition for files that are not accessed very often.
>Then, when the Options dialog box appears you click to select the "Compress
>Old Files"check box.
>Then, if you want to change the number of days before a file is consider
>"not accessed very often" you click to highlight the "Compress Old Files"
>entry and click the Options button. Then you click the Disk Cleanup OK
>button and it will compress the files. Note: By default the number of days
>that a file is "not accessed very often" is set to 50. However, this can
>be changed to a maximum of 500.

>The following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article has some details about the
>various options you find in Disk Cleanup.

>KB253597 - Automating Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows
>http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=253597

>For the exact paths and file extensions that Disk Cleanup searches, run
>regedit.exe, navigate to the following registry key, and view each subkey.

>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
>Explorer\Volume Caches

>For example, by viewing the "Temporary Files" registry subkey I can
>determine that the FileList for "Temporary Files" is all the files (*.*)
>and that the Folder is %TEMP%. And I can determine where the %TEMP% folder
>is by clicking Start, clicking Run, entering the following command and
>clicking OK: % TEMP%

>Note that some of the files and folders have the hidden and/or system
>attribute. As such, you may need to modify your folder options so that you
>can view them.
>For more information search the Help and Support Center for "To display
>hidden files and folders"

>BTW, some people posting to the microsoft.public.* newsgroups have reported
>that Disk Cleanup's "Compressing Old Files" stage can take overnight, so
>you may want to leave Disk Cleanup running that long.

>Also, some people post that Disk Cleanup stops responding while compressing
>old files. And according to this archived newsgroup thread:

----- Original Message -----
From: Emmers Presson [MSFT]
Subject: Re: Disk Clean up
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Date: 2003-12-27 07:07:49 PST
Link to thread via Google Groups Archives:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=%23AbCXsIzDHA.
1500%40TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl

>The hang can be due to a corrupt compressed file. There are two
>options, you can either manually uncompress all files and run disk
>cleanup again, or you can remove the following registry values,
>which eliminate the scanning for compressed files <SNIP>
----- Original Message -----

>For more information see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

>KB812248 - Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While
>Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;812248
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