Disk cleanup

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Would anyone be able to tell me what's up with this? I've been running disk cleanup since about 8 this morning, and it is still only about 3 bars into the "calculating" phase (compress old files). This happens every time I use it. It's now 2 p.m. and it's been running for what, 6 hours? Shouldn't it have cleaned up by now? I'm running the cleanup so I can run my defragmenter (which will only let me defrag if I have 15% free space, and I currently have 14%).

Should I just let it continue to run? Or is there a problem with my disk cleanup? The task manager says it's running; no "not responding" message.

(I have Windows XP if that makes a difference.)

[Outkast in Exile]

Are you sure its not moving up, then resetting? I don't know a heap about Disk Cleanup, I just know that thats something Defragmenter sometimes does.  Not usually on Windows XP though.

Usually disk cleanup doesn't take that long at all... unless you've somehow set it to compress your whole harddrive or something, though I'm not entirely sure if you can do that.  I'd suggest rebooting the computer, and trying it again.  

However, as I said, I don't know a heap about Disk Cleanup specifically, so...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

defrag does that only on 9x versions, I believe.

Cleanup shouldn't be doing that. I would go manually delete your temp internet folders, your temp folders, and empty the recycle bin. Then see if the OS behaves any better

incidentally, defrag with 15% open is going to take a long time.

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incidentally, defrag with 15% open is going to take a long time.

Oh, I realize that. It's just something that has to be done.