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To: Perry Ganz who wrote (33460)	3/30/2003 10:43:40 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110581

Perry, assuming you have Windows XP I would run error check on the hard drive first. My Computer, then right click on the hd icon and click 'properties' and then the 'tools' tab. Gottfried

To: Perry Ganz who wrote (33460)	3/30/2003 10:52:45 PM
From: steve	Respond to of 110581

Perry, You may have something running in the background. I had that problem too. The program that was running was GoBack. Goback wanted to write to the disk. Clean up would want to wait for GoBack to quit writing... Disabling GoBack solved my problem. Try CTL-ALT-Delete and disable everything except systray and explorer. steve

To: Perry Ganz who wrote (33460)	3/31/2003 5:26:58 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Perry That's not unusual with disk cleanup. Sometimes it chokes on compressing old files. Try this cleanup. forum.aumha.org 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. _________________ Jim Eshelman MS-MVP