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Posted on 10-26-08 06:47:55 PM (last edited by CarCat at 10-26-08 03:48 PM)

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Disk cleanup is taking years to finish up with these. Can someone tell me a better way to remove this, and if it's normal to have 4 million kilobytes of it?

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Posted on 10-26-08 06:50:58 PM

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Don't bother with it. It's not worth the time, and slows down your computer on top of that.

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Posted on 10-27-08 11:14:40 AM

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It's one of the things Windows could've done without. Compressing old files equates to making said files take up less space with a tradeoff of running slower if they're ever used again.

Better is to not use Disk Cleanup at all but to use something of a run like CCleaner/JDiskReport, Scandisk, and Disk Defrag (or, preferably here, Diskeeper).

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Posted on 10-28-08 09:39:58 PM

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Originally posted by Fate Testarossa
It's one of the things Windows could've done without. Compressing old files equates to making said files take up less space with a tradeoff of running slower if they're ever used again.

Better is to not use Disk Cleanup at all but to use something of a run like CCleaner/JDiskReport, Scandisk, and Disk Defrag (or, preferably here, Diskeeper).

I went through the 'Free Useful Software' thread and found nCleaner. It was worked well. I understand why they would compress them, but what are (or were) they used for?

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Posted on 10-28-08 10:39:21 PM

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Depends. It's all dependent on old files you've not used in a long time.

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