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see these two pictures:


btw running Disk Cleanup on my C: drive gives similar results

the first time i ran disk cleanup, i did check the bottom option only to find it deleted 9x% of my drive. I was not happy.

This post has been edited by anonymous_user: Feb 11 2007, 19:37

Well, that "Disk cleanup" is only for über-n00bs who can't empty their thrash can, internet cache etc. on their own, so there's no good reason to use it anyway.

i know that, but this is serious don't you think?

I don't consider myself as a noob, but I like default disk cleanup. I use other cleaners too just incase I miss anything, and about the size of the files I seen in my laptop and my desktop to be around 40+ gb and I did clean those one and it didn't appeare next time.

Never seen that, heck mine says 0 bytes for everything listed, sure something isnt wrong with your install?

You're saying it pretty much formatted your drive?

I don't see how Disk Cleanup could make an error like that.

Sounds to me like you don't know what you're doing or you had mass junk on that drive.

Yes, quite so... looks like it's caused by Error Reporting, so disable Error Reporting (best left disabled anyway) and check again if it still displays incorrectly.

yes. only a few video files were spared.

me either but it did.

1. sometimes u learn things the hard way. for me, this was one of those times.

2. my F:\ drive just has installers, videos, mp3s, documents, etc. nothing really that would be considered junk.

i removed error reporting using vlite

I can't see the images, "File Traffic Over".

Edit: Ah yes I see them now. On my PC those two files combined are less than 2 GB in size.

This post has been edited by Crackler: Feb 11 2007, 19:47

i know, i uploaded the images elsewhere and editted my first post.

also i found this page that says cleaning those error reporting files is safe. do i have bad luck or is something wrong with my Vista?

Gotta get em all... Run this for everything..

%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

CCleaner ftw

I'm willing to bet your install is messed up, I just ran it on my system and it works fine. You mentioned vLite, I would wager there lies the problem.

thanks for all the feedback, hopefully ill find the source of the problem.

NO kidding. Why do people insist on "tweaking" the OS before really settling into it? Disabling services in most cases ain't going to do much good. People claim things like the QoS service eats bandwith. Guess what. It's NOT UTILIZED unless a specific app needs it. So disabling it does NOTHING.

All these cleaners, optimizers and tuning apps do more harm than good. You might FEEL better, but your system is unlikely to run better.

People still think that running memory clearing/boosting programs is a good idea. Yet, superfetch uses memory for a reason. So every time you "clear out your memory" guess what. . . you're HURTING performance.

People still think Windows needs to be pruned and half its content deleted to work right. I'm sorry, it's not 1992 anymore. So many problems are caused by people who mistakenly believe that THEY know better when they don't. Also, do you really want to trust your computer in the hands of some random programmer and his 3rd party app? People bitch and moan about security and reliability, and then they insist on running some program written by a random amateur that makes major changes to system integrity. People are weird, seriously.

It's like people who buy a brand new car and immediatley start replacing spark plugs, exhaust components and modifying all sorts of stuff. Then all of a sudden, the car starts running like crap. Guess what? The people who built your car are engineers. You're not.