http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Vista Disk Cleanup Super Duper Error!!! en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:12:54 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-35177 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:52:59 +0000 Lighthouse 35177@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>As I said before. That problem seems to have gone when SP1 arrived.<br /> And if you have done it (as have I (used Disk Cleanup wreck system)). Then no need to reinstall. The system is already factory restored by doing so! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-35176 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:52:06 +0000 whs 35176@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Puttering or not. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I am told that Vista has 55 million lines of code. With the industry standard of 1 bug per 1000 lines of code, you can imagine how many things can go wrong - Microsoft or else. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-35174 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:46:01 +0000 JeffChaplin 35174@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Surely Disk Cleanup is supposed to be a safe application? Is it now necessary to search the Web for possible problems before you run any Microsoft application? I don't think using something that Microsoft supplies for the specific purpose of freeing up disk space can be considered 'puttering'. </p> <p>However I have now got my system back but not after a tricky problem that might warrant a topic on its own; the Lenovo ThinkVantage 'System Rejuvenation' process appears to corrupt the Vista product license key after the first forced restart (that was the Microsoft tech support person's theory) - I could not log on to Windows because when it asked for the license key to activate Vista it rejected the correct key that I entered (printed on the sticker on the laptop). But the problem was fixed after a long phone call to Microsoft this morning - involving another System Restore from Safe Mode which picked up the Restore Point made before the first step of the ThinkVantage recovery process, which then enabled the ThinkVantage recovery process to complete.</p> <p>So now I'm back to a system backup about a month old and all I have to do is reinstall the small number of applications that I had installed since then. And I did make a back up of my personal data on July 1 which is not the best but better than nothing.</p> <p>However, a further caveat on the Disk Cleanup process - if it goes wrong due to the problem reported in earlier posts it also wipes out all the existing System Restore Points and the one it creates itself doesn't work. If I hadn't had a ThinkVantage system backup then I might well have had to reinstall Vista. Of course, if I hadn’t checked those little boxes that promised to free up 147G of non-existent space…… So I’ll take that as my Microsoft lesson for today – if anything looks weird I won’t do it without searching for an explanation first – like tan2x was wise enough to do. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-34997 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:19:31 +0000 ScottW 34997@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yes, whs is right. People go puttering far more than they should. However, if you must putter ("I must, I must!") make a full backup before you do and if things go wrong, just roll back to how it was. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-34994 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:13:10 +0000 whs 34994@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hey guys, that's why I keep saying: Leave the system alone. It can very well take care of itself. All this puttering around really does not help. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-34939 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:58:08 +0000 Lighthouse 34939@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi jeff, sorry but that's it. No recovery possible I'm afraid. It seems to have been solved with SP1. But it is a problem that was well documented throughout the web. There is s/w out there can recover it, but not for likes of us mortals :( (unless you have friends in the right places) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-34933 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:47:46 +0000 JeffChaplin 34933@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I think this disaster has already happened to me. After running Disk Cleanup, while just thinking that the 147Gb size given for some kind of 'error log' file (don't remember exactly), it seems to have done some serious damage. After restart, I got message 'Windows did not shut down properly' so I selected Safe Mode. Lenovo Repair came up (I have a Lenovo T61, bought in Feb 2008 with Vista) so I ran the 'system will not start' repair. It finished after about 20 mins and then I restarted.</p> <p>I'm now running System Restore (but the only one to choose from (there should have been many) was the one created by Disk Cleanup itself before starting the 'Disk ****up' operaton. It may be OK, but I had to go out somewhere so after about 20 mins I left it running while it was still showing the 'System Restore is initializing' screen.</p> <p>Anyone had a similar experience? Successful or unsuccessful recovery? If unsuccessful, what would the forum recommend as a solution. I guess I could reinstall Vista as a last resort as I do have a recent backup of my personal data. But this is QUITE SHOCKING...something as simple as a Windows utility should NEVER exhibit this kind of behaviour. I work in the IBM Mainframe world - this kind of thing hasn't happened to anyone in the world in the last 40 years to the best of my knowledge - how is it possible for Microsoft products to be so bad?</p> <p>Thanks for reading. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-23101 Wed, 07 May 2008 02:50:32 +0000 ScottW 23101@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>How many times have we seen this now?<br /> <a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disk-cleanup-problem?replies=7'>http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disk-cleanup-problem</a></p> <p>Time to put it in the wiki. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-23097 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:31:51 +0000 tan2x 23097@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Oh thank you very much jd! This is a great help. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-23096 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:25:23 +0000 jd2066 23096@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>From what it says on <a href='http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/serious-disk-cleanup-problem-caused-by-broken-registration/'>http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/serious-disk-cleanup-problem-caused-by-broken-registration/</a> I would say no.<br /> According to that there is a bug that can cause Disk Cleanup to clean the entire drive when that is checked. Thus the high amount of space for otherwise small files.<br /> That page has a registry fix you can download that should fix that. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-disk-cleanup-super-duper-error#post-23094 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:17:53 +0000 tan2x 23094@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I used disk cleanup as one of my maintenance scheme. As it calculates the amount of space it can regenerate by deleting files, it showed a tremendous amount of space amounting to 116 GB in the "Per User Queued Windows Error Reporting" section.<br /> Heres the screenshot:</p> <p><a href='http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=diskcleanupiv0.jpg'>http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=diskcleanupiv0.jpg</a></p> <p>The question is, Is it safe to cleanup? </p>