When I do disk cleanup on my PC, it gets stuck on compress old files. Can someone help me to fix this!!!!?

Question

I have Windows 2000. I do not know much about computers. I need very simple and detailed instructions. My pc is very slow because of this. Please help now!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

start in safe mode then try the disk cleanup while in safemode. I am not sure how to get win 2000 into safemode. anyone?

Answer 2

A clean computer is key to a faster computer. Run the 3 scans below.

Update and run your Anti-Virus program. Don't have one? You can run a free online scan from Trendmicro. When I have tested it it takes some time to run it but it may be time well spent if it can fix any problems.

Download and run http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Download, update and run Spybot---http://www.safer-networking.org/ . Don't forget to use the Immunize feature.

Download, update and run Adaware---http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/products/select_your_product.php

Now lets clean up your registry.

Download RegScrubXP--http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?d...

Safely cleans junk out of the Windows 2000/XP system registry. All changes made to the registry are fully restorable to it's original condition. You can make an exclusion list of registry entries that RegScrubXP will not display as problems. You can sift through a list of file extensions, company names, run upon startup programs, Internet Explorer history, and uninstall programs to delete what you think is junk.

Download CleanUp---http://www.stevengould.org/software/clea...

Free disk space, make your computer run better/faster and protect your privacy - all in one easy solution. All for free!

Now lets clean up your disk.

Do a Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag. You can find both of them by following the path below. You say this is where you get stuck. Well how long does it get stuck? It may take some time if you have not done this in awhile. Give it some more time.

Start>all programs>accessories>system tools>Disk Cleanup. Let it do its thing. You can check every box that has something to delete.

Now follow the same path and do a Disk Defrag. Again just let it do its thing.

Now lets tweak your connection. There are many programs out there to do this. I will give you 2 of them.

The first one is TCP Optimizer.

Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php...

You can get support for the best way to set it up right from their forum http://forums.speedguide.net/

The second one is Cablenut.

Windows XP tested and approved

CableNut is a tool for optimizing your Internet Connection. We have provided a way to tweak any option you may want to in the adjuster. You can load "CableNut Custom Setting" files that are included with the program to tweak your Internet connection.

http://www.cablenut.com/

Again support is available right from their forum.http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?p...

Answer 3

It does this on mine, too. Don't use disk cleanup, use CCleaner (ccleaner.com), a free utility that does basically the same thing.

Also, go into the task manager (ctrl+alt+del), to the 'processes' tab, sort by cpu to find the disk cleanup process, and end that task.

Edit: Thank you, guy who posted above me. It fixed my problem too.

Answer 4

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812248