Disk Cleanup "Churns"

> I am trying to run disk cleanup on my 80GB system hard
> drive. Each time I start, I get the dialog box telling
> me that Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space I will
> be able to free on (C It also indicated that it
> is "Scanning : Compress old files." This will continue
> for several hours with no apparent progress, and no hard
> disk noise, but if I summon the task manager, it
> indicates that the CPU is 100% busy, with cleanmgr.exe
> using most of the resources.
>
> If I click the cancel button on the dialog box, the
> dialog box goes away, but the task manager still shows
> cleanmgr.exe running and hogging the CPU.
> The system is not frozen, just exceedingly slow until I
> reboot.
>
> Not an emergency, but I would like to clean the trash of
> my hard drive.
>
> I think I must have a registry flag set, but don't know
> how to find and fix it.
>
> Any ideas?

>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to run disk cleanup on my 80GB system hard
>drive. Each time I start, I get the dialog box telling
>me that Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space I

>be able to free on (C It also indicated that it
>is "Scanning : Compress old files." This will continue
>for several hours with no apparent progress, and no hard
>disk noise, but if I summon the task manager, it
>indicates that the CPU is 100% busy, with cleanmgr.exe
>using most of the resources.
>
>If I click the cancel button on the dialog box, the
>dialog box goes away, but the task manager still shows
>cleanmgr.exe running and hogging the CPU.
>The system is not frozen, just exceedingly slow until I
>reboot.
>
>Not an emergency, but I would like to clean the trash of
>my hard drive.
>
>I think I must have a registry flag set, but don't know
>how to find and fix it.
>
>Any ideas?
>.
>

> Thanks to both Patti and Carey. I took Carey's approach
> because it seemed safer to me than directly editing my
> registry (although that's probably exactly what the
> Kellys-Korner solution did) I have already applied the
> fix and have finished cleaning my disk.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Ken

> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am trying to run disk cleanup on my 80GB system hard
> >drive. Each time I start, I get the dialog box telling
> >me that Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space I

> will

> >be able to free on (C It also indicated that it
> >is "Scanning : Compress old files." This will continue
> >for several hours with no apparent progress, and no hard
> >disk noise, but if I summon the task manager, it
> >indicates that the CPU is 100% busy, with cleanmgr.exe
> >using most of the resources.
> >
> >If I click the cancel button on the dialog box, the
> >dialog box goes away, but the task manager still shows
> >cleanmgr.exe running and hogging the CPU.
> >The system is not frozen, just exceedingly slow until I
> >reboot.
> >
> >Not an emergency, but I would like to clean the trash of
> >my hard drive.
> >
> >I think I must have a registry flag set, but don't know
> >how to find and fix it.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >.
> >