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You da MAN!!!!<br />
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Thanks. &nbsp;My Comp finally finished it's scan after running for 20+ minutes.
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You da MAN!!!!

Thanks.  My Comp finally finished it's scan after running for 20+ minutes.

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We've all seen this before:<br />
I'm working with a Win2k-sp4 laptop<br />
I'm trying to speed up a healthy computer by running the basics: MS updates, disk cleanup, defrag - all the built-in basics.<br />
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When I run Disk Cleanup one of the first things it looks at for saving space is Compress old files. &nbsp;The computer is a couple years old, so not a bad idea as I could probably gain a GB of disk space or more. &nbsp;However, because it is so old there seems to be a LOT of old files...it's been scanning those for some 10 minutes already. &nbsp;So is there a way to have it skip that part of the cleanup? &nbsp;I know that once it finishes the scan you can choose not to compress them, but I'd like to bypass the scanning: Compress old files part.<br />
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If not, I'm open to freeware suggestions.<br />
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Thanks guys.<br />

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We've all seen this before:
I'm working with a Win2k-sp4 laptop
I'm trying to speed up a healthy computer by running the basics: MS updates, disk cleanup, defrag - all the built-in basics.

When I run Disk Cleanup one of the first things it looks at for saving space is Compress old files.  The computer is a couple years old, so not a bad idea as I could probably gain a GB of disk space or more.  However, because it is so old there seems to be a LOT of old files...it's been scanning those for some 10 minutes already.  So is there a way to have it skip that part of the cleanup?  I know that once it finishes the scan you can choose not to compress them, but I'd like to bypass the scanning: Compress old files part.

If not, I'm open to freeware suggestions.

Thanks guys.


Disk Cleanup - skip scanning compress old files

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.