Perry
That's not unusual with disk cleanup. Sometimes it chokes on compressing old files. Try this cleanup.
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You should be doing some sort of system maintenance. I use other utilities to monitor things, including a very high regard for Norton Utilities. A periodic cleaning of temp folders, whether they need a bath or not, is a good idea.
On the job, it is commonplace to have to do what we call "the usual cleanup" on user machines -- primarily emptying temp folders in a corporate environment. I have a coworker who prefers to use Disk Cleanup to do this, and admits it's because he's lazy and it's fast. However, I've come behind him more than once and found that user problems weren't resolved because Disk Cleanup doesn't even do that good of a job. FWIW, our protocol for "the usual cleanup" is:
Close all browser sessions. Open one copy of IE. In Tools | Internet Options (which also can be reached via Control Panel without opening any browser copies), under "Temporary Internet Files," use "Delete Files" one time with "Delete Offline Content" checked and once without it checked. (I was surprised to learn recently that checking the box doesn't get everything, it only gets stuff that can be categorized as offline content.) Clear History. Close IE.
In My Computer, to into C:\Documents and Settings, drill down to your user profile, be sure all hidden files and folders are visible so you can see the Local Settings folder, and manually empty the Temp and Temporary Internet Files folders (the latter will be nearly empty at that point). Close My Computer. Empty the Recycle Bin. Reboot.
There are other things one could do as well, but that particular drill has been the most efficient for turning around sludgy, strangled computers into nicely purring friends.
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