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    Disk Cleanup - per user queued windows error

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Sepharite, Dec 31, 2007.

  1. Sepharite

    Sepharite Notebook Consultant

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    I can free up at least 16 GBs, from these files, or whatever that are. I was wondering if it's safe to delete them?

    I'm reading online that its a bug and will completely remove all my programs? Wha? Lol

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. =)

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    "These are the reports that Windows asks you to send to Microsoft when the
    system or an application crashes. Removing them won't have serious
    consequences, although it does clear your Problem Reports and Solutions
    control panel, preventing you from checking for solutions to those problems."

    Is that true? Damn... that's a lot of GBs just for that.
     
  2. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    You have the option to disable sending reports to MS through system options. Disk Cleanup shouldn't delete anything other than temporary items. Also, unless you're limited on disk space, I recommend you uncheck the option to compress files. I assume that might be the option that will free up the most disk space.
     
  3. Shub

    Shub Notebook Guru

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    I suggest you read through this and make sure your registry key's are set up like they should be. And you can check those folders yourself to see if they really do take up that much space.

    It's not unlikely actually. The windows error files are quite often 500+ mb each.
    The bug is usually more apparent when it says you can free up 200+ GB (like on mine when i have an 80gb partition)

    Arkit3kt, Disk Cleanup has a severe bug that deletes everything on your windows partition if the registry keys i mentioned are deleted or corrupted.
     
  4. ragsrocks

    ragsrocks Notebook Guru

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    the reg keys mentioned by shub here are just like they should be, when i check...

    my disk cleaner shows 6.3 GB of "Per user queued windows error reports", but wen i went and checked the folder there, ir was jus a few MBs.... heck, even the whole windows folder under local (under AppData) was less than that! (~3-4gb). whats going on here? can i safely use my disk cleaner to delete these files?

    its one big chunk of mystic files that no1 can touch! kinda like the mafia:|