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Frankly speaking, I have downloaded too many softwares to test, but seldom
do disk cleanup. This is no good

Since I am a windows user, I have a free disk cleanup tool under
accessories to use. Its time for me to cleanup my computer!

The problem is it took too long time just for it to start and analyzes
the amount of space that can be freed by compressing old files first (see the screenshot below). Sometime it took 5 minutes or more.

How to speed up disk cleanup tool?

The time-consuming analysis can be remove by tweaking windows
registry. But please pay more attention when tweaking registry, delete
wrong key can cause your Windows OS not function properly!

Click at Start, Run then type in regedit and press OK. Browse to the
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\VolumeCaches” key. Select the sub-key “compress old files” and backup
to a .reg file through “File | Export”. Keep the reg file for restore purpose if needed in future.

Now, delete the entire “compress old files” entry. Restart your computer and launch your disk cleanup tool directly without waiting
for analysis process.

After tweak my disk cleanup tool, the tool start immediately without waiting. Probably I will cleanup my harddisk more often.