CleanManager hanging with 99% CPU usage?

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Absolut Talent
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CleanManager hanging with 99% CPU usage?

Post by Absolut Talent »

I was having this problem in win2k, with the clean manager hanging at scanning compressed files and it wouldnt go anywhere even after buttloads of time.

So i found a fix

Open regedit. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr
entVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches

Delete the entry "Compress Old Files".

Now cleanmgr.exe will work! You can still compress files manually, but cleanmgr.exe will not have the capacity to automatically compress old files after you make this change.




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Post by ZYFER »

I found what works is to delete the entry and export the registry from another computer and import it to your registry, then it will work again
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