Vista Problems

i did disk cleanup in vista. i check the error reporting thing(it was like 39 gig) then after that everything was gone. all the program

 

Please refrain from using abbreviated swear words with strong language.
Thank you
Tim

 

Can you elaborate please?

First, what version of vista do you have and what are the specs of you lappy?

Second, are you saying you tried to do disk cleanup and it crashed and when you did the error report the memory dump file was 39gb big, and then you lost all your programs(hard to believe).

 

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this is what happened to me too today.
And if you think these are just isolated cases, then do a search on Google for 'Vista disk cleanup bug'.
Here are a few links:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=537951
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-performance-maintenance/84524-disk-cleanup-bug.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=537951&pid=588825623&st=45&#entry588825623
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=101608&mode=threaded

I am dual booting with XP, and had allocated 55,7GB for Vista partition.
Decided to do a disk cleanup today, and noticed that Per User Queued Windows Error Reporting told me that i would be able to free 53GBs of disk space.
Of course i was hesitant to clean that up, but i was sure that it wasn't actually gonna remove 53GBs, as that would mean deleting a lot of Vista's very own files as well. I was sure Vista would not be that stupid, but boy was i wrong.
All my desktop icons were gone and i couldn't go anywhere(Videos, Pictures, etc.), as Vista was reporting me that that location or file does not exist on disk. The whole partition was now taking up around only 5GBs of disk space.
After restarting Windows, it told me that there was an error and couldn't load up Vista.

To those that now wanna tell me that it was my fault for being so stupid, i will say this: Hey hello, isn't disk cleanup exactly for that - for deleting files which Vista considers safe to delete? Why does your average computer user have to be afraid to use tools that were designed by Microsoft for exactly that software(Vista) and for that purpose?
So, needless to say this was my last drop of patience. Despite the fact that i really like Vista, i am now forced to stick with XP.

 

*gasp*

..Vista!? ...Problems!?? Heresy!!

Burn him! BURN tha b*tch! LoL

*carts off Estlander to the stake*

Naturally, neither Vista nor Microsoft could ever be fallible - it's always the sheeple dont'ch ya know

- Jordan

 

After hours of research and cursing when my own disk cleanup decided to kill my OS, I figured I'd try to find a cure - and I have!


Open Regedit (start - run - regedit) and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\VolumeCaches

There you will find 4 keys called Windows error reporting.
Now if you look closely you will see that one (or more) is missing the Folder string.
Now, lets get to fixing it.

If you are in the " Windows Error Reporting Archive Files " key

Right click - New - Expandable String Value.

Call it Folder and use the following entry:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive

If you are in the " Windows Error Reporting Queue Files " key

use: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue

If you're in the " Windows Error Reporting System Archive Files " key

use: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive

and if you're in the " Windows Error Reporting System Queue Files " key

use: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue

This worked for me atleast, i tried removing the Folder string and the bug was back, hope this helps guys!

 

What i did was disable Windows Error Reporting altogether. Now, whenever i run Disk Cleanup, it never tells me to delete those Per User Queued System Error Reporting files.
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to disable error reporting in Windows Vista:

Open the Control Panel
Open the Problem Reports & Solutions applet
Under the Advanced option you can disable problem reporting