Speed up disk cleanup
. I posted previously:
Windows XP comes with a useful utility called Disk Cleanup that helps to keep unnecessary temporary files from accumulating. (I discuss the details of using this utility at this link.) However, systems with NTFS disks often run into a problem with the utility being very slow or hanging for a long time. This is caused by the default setting in Disk Cleanup that checks to see if it should apply file compression to old files. It’s odd that Microsoft has not changed this setting; for one thing file compression is generally not needed on today’s large disks. Even more to the point, the procedure often just makes the system stop responding.
I then gave a Registry edit for fixing the problem and even provided a little file to do the job for those loath to to manually edit the Registry. Now Microsoft will also fix the problem for you, using the new Fix-it feature mentioned previously.
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