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!
- Shub
Quote: Originally Posted by
Jay 
Hi,
I own a 160GB Western Digital Hard Drive partitioned into a 40GB OS
partition and the other 120GB for my files.
However, when I run Disk Cleanup utility from within Vista Ultimate, it
shows multiple 131GB options for me to clean up, which is quite ridiculous. I
have cleaned up with the 131GB option checked before, resulting in the
desktop and pretty much everything on the 40GB partition being deleted.
I have had to reformat the computer and reinstall Vista, but it seems this
is a recurrent problem. It is not a critical flaw as no damage will be done
if the Disk Cleanup is not run, but if it is, I think other users facing this
same problem will be quite grieved at the loss of important data.
Anyone had a similiar experience or can offer help?
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