windows disk cleanup manager---HELLLP!!!!!

[Annie]

I am having the same problem. I have an hp and now
suddenly after a year my disk cleanup will not operate
either. Hope someone out there has help for us

Annie
>-----Original Message-----
>I was hoping someone could give me a direction with this
>problem so i dont have to pay microsoft to hear bad news.
>I have winXP Home and it was pre loaded as per el cheapo
>TOSHIBA who didn't provide winxp disks just recovery
disks
>that will only allow you to reinstall the whole nine
yards
>by formatting the hard drive and in essence deleting
>everything... if a system file is corrupted or broken
you
>have to reinstall all of it. My problem is that the
disk
>cleanup manager hangs and doesnt work anymore for some
>reason and I cant find the file cleanmgr.exe anywhere at
all.
>i will not reformat my drive and reinstall 90 programs
>again from scratch, I''l send this laptop back toshiba
in
>pieces before i do that i knew I should have bought a
>Think pad.. can anyone suggest a way or where to find
this
>file so i can reinstall it in SYS 32 and overwrite the
>current file ??
>Thanks to anyone and everyone in advance
>.
>

[Nicholas]

Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;812248


Visit http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and scroll
down to Line #48. In the right-hand window, click on
"Disk Cleanup - Compress Old Files Freezes"

[Courtesy of Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP]


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Nicholas

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"Annie" > wrote in message:
...

| I am having the same problem. I have an hp and now=20
| suddenly after a year my disk cleanup will not operate=20
| either. Hope someone out there has help for us
|=20
| Annie
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I was hoping someone could give me a direction with this
| >problem so i dont have to pay microsoft to hear bad news.
| >I have winXP Home and it was pre loaded as per el cheapo
| >TOSHIBA who didn't provide winxp disks just recovery=20
| disks
| >that will only allow you to reinstall the whole nine=20
| yards
| >by formatting the hard drive and in essence deleting
| >everything... if a system file is corrupted or broken=20
| you
| >have to reinstall all of it. My problem is that the=20
| disk
| >cleanup manager hangs and doesnt work anymore for some
| >reason and I cant find the file cleanmgr.exe anywhere at=20
| all.
| >i will not reformat my drive and reinstall 90 programs
| >again from scratch, I''l send this laptop back toshiba=20
| in
| >pieces before i do that i knew I should have bought a
| >Think pad.. can anyone suggest a way or where to find =20
| this
| >file so i can reinstall it in SYS 32 and overwrite the
| >current file ??
| >Thanks to anyone and everyone in advance
| >.
| >