disk cleanup

Ok so this is the problem: My thumbnails have stopped working,all of the sudden I see the paint and brush symbol on each picture in each folder. So far i have tried the following: going to folder options and to the View tab,then unchecking always show icons,never thumbnails several times... (no...

ok, so i got a little problem or rather a worry : i had 352mb of free space and a zip file of 470+mb on the same hdd. as i didnt need some of the files in that zip, i deleted them (around 50mb). i did so directly out of winzip 10, which actually makes a new file out of the old but without...

Hi I have a maxtor basics usb desktop 500 gig external hard drive and it doesn't seem to work. I plugged it in and windows said it was installing updates, that finished and said this was complete. I then went onto computer management and I can see it under device manager, and when I go into...

So far I like the RC. It doesn't crash or lock-up (IE8) like the Beta frequently did while browsing, and the "Delete Browsing History" function actually does the job now; when I do a disk cleanup, the temp files are already empty, whereas they were still there with the Beta. Shutdown takes...

My computer became infected with the Win32/virut virus last night. Having battled for hours this morning I think I have removed it. There is still an error when starting firefox (jl.chura.pc/rl) but that is not the question for now... During the clean up I performed a disk cleanup, which it...

I was just doing a disk cleanup in Vista Home Premium and noticed that many of the boxes are not ticked. I was wondering what is best to leave alone. I know that you can delete the Hibernation File cleaner, but then cannot use that option. Since I never use the Hybrid Seep or Hibernation (or...

I installed windows 7 over an XP installation that had Windows Steady State installed on it with a 10 GB cache. Steady State is incompatible with Windows 7 so cache.wdp is installed taking up 10GB of space but I can't use Steady State to delete it. Cache.wdp only shows up when I use a disk...

hi...the problem i have is that i can't delete the hibernation files.I use disk cleanup,it shows me i have hibernation files,i check to delete,but after i press delete they don't get deleted.I tried disabeling hibernation and then deleting,but with the same result.

Hey I had a dual boot of vista on another parition that i didnt need anymore so i eraced it but I cant seem to erace about 2 gigs worth of stuff in the windows folder including the folder and program files folder no matter what I try it wont give me permission to do it, ive tried some stuff it...

While attempting to add Disk Cleanup to Scheduled Tasks I ran cleanmgr.exe /? in a command window to find out the available switches. Two of these undocmented switches /SETUP or /TUNEUP:n ran without feedback. When I returned to the desktop my Quicklaunch bar was empty and no programs...

Seems like a new entry to me. Anyone know what this is supposed to do?

Hopefully this is an easy question to answer, but I haven't found it yet. If I check how much space is being used by my Vista account (I'm the only user) it tells me I'm using 134 GB (right-click User -> Properties), but if I actually add up all the folders under that user (there are no loose...

Can I delete the windows.old files that were left when I installed Vista? They take up a lot of room and since they are all xp files and you can't access anything in them, I just thought it would be nice to get rid of them. We did a complete install to Vista from xp, not an upgrade, but it still...

I installed Windows Vista yesterday, accidentally doing so on my "D" drive rather than my primary "C" drive. After realizing my mistake, I simply did an image restore of my former XP OS and reinstalled Vista on my primary "C" drive. No problems except.... The Windows files from my initial...