i Have Vista Ultimate 32Bit, and i cant get Disk Cleanup to start.. i get to the options "My Files Only" and "Files From All Users on This Computer" no mather who i choose, a box is flashing for a tiny second, and nothing happens. have tried to make a new Admin Account, tried cleanmgr, turned off and on UAC, i have searched the web for two days without finding any answers.. i have ccleaner, but i want Disk Cleanup to work!
View 6 RepliesIs this normal? My disk cleanup shown me a 257GB of files to delete on my 80GB disk. I haven't local network and no external disk. I am using vista home premium with sp1, but this problem was without sp1 too. I attached link (for better understanding) to picture of cleanup.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have been noticed that there are not as many options in Disk Clean Up I disabled Hibernation so that would not be listed but what about memory dump does this only get listed if the computer BSODS and restarts?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI used Disk Cleanup yesterday to clean all files on Drive: "C". It cleaned out all the files on my "J" & "K" Flashdrives which were plugged in at the time. What happened? Why? How can I get these files back?
View 8 Replies View RelatedHow do I permanently remove the default check mark in the box next to "Thumbnails" or eliminate the category?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhenever I do a disk cleanup, when it is scanning. It gets stuck on the system error memory dump files, and takes forever to finish the scan?? Is there a way to speed up this process? And make the scan a lot faster?
Tried to use disk cleanup to clear up some space and it dosen't cleanup its telling me i can free up 2.14gb of space on my c: drive and its just not doing it, somethings have been acting kinda strange of late too, and i've been having a good cleanup and thats when i noticed this, you can see here in this shot,
View 4 Replies View RelatedAside from Vista's standard cleanup, disk tools. Does anyone have any recommendations of any good programs for Vista?
View 9 Replies View RelatedDisk Cleanup and Defrag. Scheduling (Vista) When I schedule Disk Cleanup, a default schedule says cleanup will be activated when I am logged on. There is another option that says cleanup can be activated when I am logged on or off, but it is grayed out, and I am having difficulty gaining access to that option.
1. So, am I to assume that Disk Cleanup will only activate when I am logged on at the time specified? However, when I schedule Defrag., there are no options.
2. So, am I to assume Defrag. will activate if I am logged on or off at a specified time? Also, the Defrag, window tells you the last time Defrag. was runned.
3. Is there a log or another window I can check to see if Defrag. was completed?
Does anyone know why Disk Cleanup will not clean the recycle bin? CCleaner cleans it just fine.
View 9 Replies View Relatedid my disk cleanup gaving the me the right info. because i have 205 of free space. this monrning i did a disk cleanup .it say that i could gain 2.some gb. so i did do the cleanup. but i am still at 205 of free space.
the same thing happen about 3 day ago i did a disk cleanup but i never gain any thing .it say that i was going to gain about the same 2 gb and more?
Where may I get some guidance regarding what Files I may always delete and what files may be of some benefit not to always delete.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI know about powercfg -h on. It doesn't work. Disk cleanup deleted the hibernation file, now when I put that line in the command prompt it tells me: "Hibernation failed with the following error: Access is denied. The following items are preventing hibernation on this system. The system could not create the hibernation file. The specific error code is 0xc0000022."I am an admin account, running the cmd.exe as an admin. Doing this in safe mode produces a different error which I can post if you want (along the lines of a VGAsave). There are no options in the control panel remotely relating to hibernation. Is there any alternate way to enable hibernation or to get the powercfg tool to work as it is intended?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIn Msft that would xp I used a utility that would clean out un needed files, how do I find similar utilities in Windows Vista? In XP under programs, there was a category called ACCESSORIES. Is there one in Vista?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a HP laptop that is a C2D 1.86Ghz which is almost 2 years old, has 3gigs ram and the hard drive on it still had around 50gigs free. I normally set the virtual memory manually but because the machine is slowing down badly decided to put it all back to auto for a test. It appears to have helped a little so it remains on Windows automatically deciding what is best for now though the option to use it more for progs rather than background processes is chosen. I tried the other way and it seemed to slow down some programs so back to programs it is. Anyway, over time on its Vista SP1 (64 bit ultimate, BTW) it has slowed dramatically. I have:
1) Defragged, cleaned out garbage of all sorts using ccleaner and also removed old restore points and so on using Disk Cleanup.
2) Gone through registry using JV16 Power Tools 2009 and cleaned out any mistakes that were possible to remove.
3) Checked out what is starting up and uninstalled any program that I no longer used and adjusted ones I still use to only load what they need when I actually click on them to start.
4) Did an image backup of "C" drive and then deleted all partitions and formatted the drive as one partition and blank then used another machine to attach the drive to and check for any faults including bad sectors then put the image back.
5) Downloaded HWMonitor to check heat and it SOMETIMES gets up to 56C when I really am pushing it but for the most part hovers around 40C. So overheating isn't it.
I cannot get to the thermal exchanger so cannot be entirely sure but with the best inspection I could do, I could see there was nothing blocking the vents or exchange unit. I also stand the laptop on a cake stand (which is the metal wire stand thing you put cakes on to cool down) so that air flow under and around it is maximised. All those things did nix to help. So I decided to use SFC /SCANNOW and it
went through the entire process and reported that two files appeared to be a problem but couldn't be fixed because they were locked. OK, so I tried to use SFC /SCANBOOT as I used to on XP but that option doesn't exist for SFC under Vista so I cant reboot and have a windows OS file scan be performed when no file is locked. Not daunted I thought about "repair install" which *CAN* be done on my desktop Vista Business if needed with the DVD there but the laptop came with Vista Ultimate 64 bit already installed and with a restore partition on it, no disk, as usual and I cannot actually DO a repair install because of that.....
I have got Auslogics Defrag program and after each defrag I do it tells me I have a number of junk files, at present 971 sometimes its way over 1000 and I then do a disk cleanup hoping to get rid of them, but after installing another game or program of some sort, again I am told I have several junk files. I would like to know how I can get rid as it also tells me that they can slow the PC down and lessen performance, not that my PC is a slouch, far from it, but I still don't like the idea of junk files on my PC and would like for once to sort this out, as before I have never taken any notice of it, perhaps I should have, but thats me, untidy as always!
View 9 Replies View RelatedI there anyway to add Clear Recent Items In the Disk Cleanup Files In Vista? As I need to do it manually.. I do not want CCleaner
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a time range that Disk Cleanup protects the temp files it should remove? After running Disk Cleanup there are still temp files left in C:/windows/temp and in the appdata/local/temp in my users folder. However the files left are recent files, so does Disk Cleanup only remove files which older than a few days old?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have found my first bug in the final code of Windows Vista. A few weeks ago after my hard drive was getting low on space I ran disk cleanup to try to delete some unneeded files. Since I needed a lot of space fast I also checked the option to clear my hibernation file. It turns out that was a big mistake.
After clearing my hibernation file my laptops ability to hibernate was destroyed. It was so badly damaged that I could not get to the control panel hibernation settings to turn it back on. Thanks Disk Cleanup!
The fix is actually very easy to do.. Since the control panel settings were gone, I simply used the the command prompt to turn it back on. If you have a similar problem, run the follow command at an administrative level command prompt to turn hibernation back on:
Powercfg /hibernate on ...
I ran the disk cleanup wizard the other night on my C drive. It scanned my C drive as normal and then came up with results to clean, one of which was for error reporting logs which wasnt ticked by default, but was apparently 99gigs worth! I thought this was pretty interesting seeing as my C drive is only 32gig big, so out of curiosity I ticked the box to cleanup the 99gig of logs, and sat back and watched. Everything seemed fine after it finished, but I rebooted to be sure and then my wallpaper went missing. I went to set the wallpaper back to what it was..... and noticed the file was missing. Then I checked the start menu, all my programs have been removed! (example, powerdvd gone, alcohol 120 gone, winzip etc all gone and nothing working, not just removed from the start menu, but also uninstalled from hdd)
View 4 Replies View RelatedVista Home Premium upgraded to SP2 Danish. When I do a Disk Cleanup then it should empty all temp files on the hdd, but I found out that its not emptying the following, why is that? c:BrugereThunderAppDataLocalTemp c:windowsTemp Eventhough you are logged in as administrator c:BrugereAdministratorAppDataLocalTemp Now the question is if I can delete these files without trouble? Or is there a reason why these files are not deleted and should not be deleted? As the subjet line says, I'm wondering why my windows folder takes up 16.3GB? I'm thinking that its all the old updates that takes up all this space since it seems to be mostly located in these 2 folders :windowswinsxs - 10.8GB c:windowssystem32 - 3.82GB What can be done about this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I run Windows Vista's Disk Cleanup program, I get this list of "Files to delete" window listing showing Downloaded Program Files, Temporary Internet Files, Recycle Bin...and one that is really BIG. It reads "Per user queued Windows Error Repo..." I can't expand the window to read it all. The size is 104GB! (as in Gigabytes). There is also a couple of other files with similar names : per user archived Windows Error Repo...System archived Windows Error Repo..., System queued Windows Error Repo..., My question is can I delete these files safely so I can reclaim some disk space without messing up anything?
View 8 Replies View Relatedjust a bit of advice needed really. Im in the process of doing a course. It is talking baout how to run chkdsk and cisk cleanup but is only giving instructions on how to do these processes in Windows XP. What is the procedure in Vista?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a newly installed Vista64 Ultimate system. After clicking Disk Management in the Computer Management window the service never starts. Instead, the following launching information is displayed: Loading disk configuration information…..Any idea what might cause this strange behavior.
My laptop is newish. Maybe 2 months now. The model is Advent and I'm running Vista Home Premium. The checker wants to check the Vista drive for consistency. It want's to scan 3 stages. I only gets to the first stage and displayes someting along the lines of:
......
Deleted corrupt entry
Type code 128 File 19611
Deleting corrupt record
Segment 11459
Readable/writable file not re writable. And then does nothing after this. If this information is not enough I will re do the scan and take down everything displayed. But what can be the problem? I download nothing and scan it daily. I have touched no system files and have only had a small handful of crashes. Is this proble something somebody knows how to solve. This laptop was bought for me and I cannot afford to have it repaired.
last night i nearly cracked it with my computer because i did a CHKDSK and when that finishes and my computer restarts... when it just about to load the logon screen it is dark for at least up to a minute. the last time i did that i wouldn't boot into windows at all. and had to pay 60.00 for it to get looked at.
View 6 Replies View Relatedhave got the following message after system repair system volume on disk is corrupt is there any solution to this
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had a bad "driver install" and windows tried to do a fix/repair and in doing so it has "check disk" running at start up.I would like the "registry fix" to disable this.Upon checking the registry hkey local machinesystem it lists "controlset001" and "controlset003" which appear to list the exact same keys.Is this normal? My OS Vista Home Premium
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy Vista desktop took forever to shut down last night and today it will not start at all. The hard drive spins briefly and then gives up. I have a recovery disk the CD drive lights but it will not start from there. I would like to get it up briefly to be sure I have no new photos to back up. I have Wubi Ubuntu installed and if I could get the thing started at all, I would be able to use it to make sure I can recover anything that I desperately need. I tried to start it with PC Linux OS which is capable of running from the CD drive, but no joy there either. I would love to give you more specifics but I can't since I can't view the info, I can't. It is an E-machine, one of their T series with 180 gig hard drive. It's got lots of RAM. I was running Vista but it was an upgrade from XP.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just bought and installed Vista Home Premium x64, I've been running it for a few days now and I quite like it. I've had no issues with hardware and drivers. Although, two things that don't sit well with me are the start menu and the disk defragger. The start menu, in particular games, is messy and inconsistant. Games are placed in the games folder/menu and that would be fine if it did it for all games but it only puts some games there. Secondly, if a game is in the games folder, it never appears in the recently used list in the start menu. This I don't like at all. It means that the recently used list pretty much all windows programs that I rarely use. Some games are in the games folder only, some are in the games folder and the all programs list and some are in the all programs list and recently used list but not in the games folder...? Also if you delete a desktop shortcut the icon in the recently used list doesn't work as it is pointing at the desktop shortcut that is not longer there instead of the actual executable.
I feel that the start menu in Vista has been ruined in an attempt to make it more sophisticated than that of Xp. In general though, Vista IS more sophisticated and does make using windows better and easier but being that the start menu is such an integral part of day to day use, it's really something that shouldn't have failed. The defragger: i'm trying to understand how this thing works if it works at all. Very confusing! If you manually start it, the defrag process never ends and yet if you kill it after hours and hours then run a 3rd party defragger it will say that the drive is still fragmented. If it's a low level background process why doesn't it just run all the time with no gui? Anyway, apart from thsoe two mind boggling things, I really like Vista - It looks cool.
I'm having trouble with the DiscCleanup in Windows Vista. When I try to open cleanmgr.exe for C: it opens for a second but closes fast when it comes to "Setup Log Files" Cleanmgr.exe worked fine for C: before a security update from windows update was installed. Is there a way to fix this?
Windows Eventlog:
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Application Error
- EventID 1000
[ Qualifiers] 0
Level 2
Task 100
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2009-01-11T13:42:41.000Z
EventRecordID 1242
Channel Application
Computer
Security
- EventData
cleanmgr.exe
6.0.6000.16386
4549b0a8
cleanmgr.exe
6.0.6000.16386
4549b0a8
c0000005
000034ef
14bc
01c973f278fc0f4d