[What about Compressed Old Files?]

If you go to tools > folder options> view and scroll down near the bottom there is an option which says something like 'show compressed or encrypted NTFS files in colour' Compressed files show up blue on your system. But you may have to show hiddens files etc to see them.

 

Some microsoft files, uninstallers etc are compressed.

 

Best that you dont uninstall them until you find out what they are.

 

 

To late I got rid of them all. It took me awhile but i got them off. all except about 1,600 kb anyways. and they won't come off.

 

Now my computer runs fine.

[What about Compressed Old Files?]

I'm a little lost here. Do you mean that under c:/Properties/General/Disk Cleanup the Compress Old Files is showing 1 gb, or do you mean something else? I can see nothing under Properties/Tools that shows compressed files.

When I go to tools and start disc cleanup of my c drive it gives me a list of files that can or need to be cleaned. In that list is the compressed old files.

[What about Compressed Old Files?]

From what I gather from earlier in this thread CC will just go ahead and delete compressed files. There is no option in CC that refers to compressed files. What makes you think that CC isn't deleting compressed files?

Because when I go to my c d*** cleaner under tools the compressed old files are still there. And its almost 1 million kb's.

[What about Compressed Old Files?]

Doesn't the previous (very old) post answer your question?

Ok If its going like this, then how do I set it to clean the compressed old files ? I may own a computer, but I don't know much about it.

[What about Compressed Old Files?]

I'm having the same problem. I can't seem to figure out how to get ccleaner to delete compressed old files. Can someone help me???