Windows 2000 professional diskcleanup is very slow in NTFS 3

[ace1974]

Why does disk cleanup take a lot longer in NTFS than in Fat32 in Windows 2000 professional? It stays in'scan: compress old files'for a while in NTFS, in Fat32 it is fast doing that step.

 

[ashpp]

FAT32 doesn't have compression so it doesn't do this step. NTFS does and so DiskCleanup scans the file system for files with old access dates.

HTH

Ash.

 

[busybill]

If you're comfortable with editing the registry use REGEDIT to go to...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files

...then delete all the entries at that point. Disk cleanup will speed along again since it has nothing to reference for "old files."

 

[mbuell]

Feedback:

I exported the registry branch, jic, then followed busybill's procedure. Worked like a charm.

Mark
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[satrow]

An alternative; in the 'run' box type 'cleanmgr /sageset:1', untick the compress old files, click OK, then 'run' 'Cleanmgr /sageset:1'. Cleans a few more items up, too. Maybe better run after the reg tweak above, would not need to untick.

Andy.