Speeding up the disk cleanup tool

While starting the disk cleaner, the tool analyzes the amount of space that can be freed by compressing old files first, before it allows access to options. This is time consuming. While doing so, you don’t have to use the packing function at all.
The time-consuming analysis can be permanently stopped by an intervention in the Registry. Start the Registry Editor and browse to the “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches” key. Select the sub-key “Compress old files” and create an REG file through “File->Export” as a backup copy to restore. Then, delete the entire entry. After restarting the system, there is no more analysis so that you can reach the settings of the data carrier cleaning faster. Besides, the option “Compress old files” no longer exists in the dialog. If you want to undo the change, execute the created REG file by double-clicking on it and confirm the acceptance of the values in the Registry by clicking on “Yes”.