Help! My Disk Cleanup is not working properly?

Question

Once I open the program and select the drive (D:) or (C:) to clean the window dissapears and does not continue to the next step.

I tried opening the task manager while using Disk Clean up to see if it was still running but the application closes itself before I can use it.

Answer 1

Try downloading another disk clean up program. I strongly recommend "ccleaner." You may download it at www.downloads.com and be assured that its completely safe. Its much faster than the disk clean up microsoft windows provide.

Answer 2

Go to the link below and scroll down to 48 and you'll see the "Disk Cleanup - Compress Old Files Freezes" Fix in the right column, download it and run it which should correct your problem.
Just click on the words "Disk Cleanup-Compress Old Files Freezes" not the underscored word "Undo".
"To use the Regedits: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and answer yes to the import prompt.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Answer 3

sounds like its time to go thru the long process of reloading to factory level,do 3 to 7 times,it will clean up all the stuff,if you have the recovery disc format the hard drive 3 o 5 times,like i said it is a lond process to do it right,but you will have a clean system to start over with

Answer 4

Do not use disk cleanup is not as nice as ccleaner. Ccleaner is superior to remove junk files and unneded data.
Get ccleaner here: http:/www.ccleaner.com and it's freeware.

Answer 5

Hi. Run the standard anti programs (Spybot, AdAware, Advanced WindowsCare, ewido, etc.). Then try again.

Answer 6

restart your computer, if that doesn't fix it scan for viruses. If this is a new problem use "system restore" to go back to a previous day when your computer worked correctly.

Answer 7

turn off and restart the computer, then try again. it'll hopefully work, that's what i do when a window does that.