Is CCleaner any good?

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Is there a reason why you did not tell us what it is and does?
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it works just fine... i've been using it for a couple of months on
both xp and w2k

it cleans indows, applications logs, and the registry ( separately)

By clean i mean remove history files, temp lfiles, cookies, unused
entries...etc
 
Hello wrote (regarding CCleaner experience):
it works just fine... i've been using it for a couple of months on
both xp and w2k

it cleans indows, applications logs, and the registry ( separately)
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Being registry-illiterate, I've been looking for a good XP registry cleaner.
As it relates to registry cleaning, do you (or anyone else, for that matter)
have any pros/cons, tips, etc. that you care to share? For example, has
CCleaner ever hosed your registry?

Thanks for any input you care to give.

Loren
 
LPV said:
Hello wrote (regarding CCleaner experience):





Being registry-illiterate, I've been looking for a good XP registry cleaner.
As it relates to registry cleaning, do you (or anyone else, for that matter)
have any pros/cons, tips, etc. that you care to share? For example, has
CCleaner ever hosed your registry?

Thanks for any input you care to give.

Loren
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We have Ccleaner installed on about 30 stations at work and have plans
to roll it out to the other 200. (run on boot). We've never had it
cause problems, and it seems to clear others up.


John H.
 
CCleaner is good but v-e-r-y aggressive. I suggest Regsweeper as a
better bet. Easier to understand and also freeware..
 
John H. said:
We have Ccleaner installed on about 30 stations at work and have plans
to roll it out to the other 200. (run on boot). We've never had it
cause problems, and it seems to clear others up.
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It does not erase files securely afaik, which means the file names
remain and (some) erased files can be undeleted.
HDCleaner does erase securely:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1287.html
http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/hdcleaner.htm

For effective and safe registry cleaning I recommend Regseeker

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm


Frank
 
Being registry-illiterate, I've been looking for a good XP registry cleaner.
As it relates to registry cleaning, do you (or anyone else, for that matter)
have any pros/cons, tips, etc. that you care to share? For example, has
CCleaner ever hosed your registry?

Thanks for any input you care to give.

Loren
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I just downloaded and tried CCleaner a couple of days ago. It
seems to work well.
 
Frank said:
It does not erase files securely afaik, which means the file names
remain and (some) erased files can be undeleted.
HDCleaner does erase securely:

For effective and safe registry cleaning I recommend Regseeker
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Thanks John, Frank, and everyone else that provided feedback on registry
cleaners. It's much appreciated!

Frank, I notice that Regseeker seems to be a beta build. Should this be of
any concern to me?

Loren
 
dfrog said:
I'm using Ccleaner on Win XP Home and have done for about 6 weeks now. I run
it after every Internet session and it works very quickly and cleanly for
me. I cannot fault it.

dfrog
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My only fault with it (I think) is that after you click it to run, it gets a
whole pot full of items.

OK so far.

There seems to be no help file. Does it delete those items automatically or
does it give you a chance to choose if you want to? I find no button to
click either way. I can exit and rerun it and it seems to find nothing so I
can assume it deleted them. Is there really that much junk out there? It
shows pages and pages each morning.
Glenn
 
Glenn said:
My only fault with it (I think) is that after you click it to run, it gets a
whole pot full of items.

OK so far.

There seems to be no help file. Does it delete those items automatically or
does it give you a chance to choose if you want to? I find no button to
click either way. I can exit and rerun it and it seems to find nothing so I
can assume it deleted them. Is there really that much junk out there? It
shows pages and pages each morning.
Glenn
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Glen, - mine is version 1.11.062, and I have lots of options to choose/don't
choose to dump.
In the left hand window are 3 tabs - Windows - Applications - Issues, and on
each of those tabs are options to include or not include in cleanup op,
20 options all together. I just left the ones which were set as default.
If you run it, whatever you have chosen to delete is deleted, so you will
find nothing on a re-run.
And yes, there really is that much crap out there depositing itself on your
hard drive. Some will say it is necessary crap and choose to save it. Some
won't even know it's there.
Hope this helps dfrog
 
dfrog said:
Glen, - mine is version 1.11.062, and I have lots of options to choose/don't
choose to dump.
In the left hand window are 3 tabs - Windows - Applications - Issues, and on
each of those tabs are options to include or not include in cleanup op,
20 options all together. I just left the ones which were set as default.
If you run it, whatever you have chosen to delete is deleted, so you will
find nothing on a re-run.
And yes, there really is that much crap out there depositing itself on your
hard drive. Some will say it is necessary crap and choose to save it. Some
won't even know it's there.
Hope this helps dfrog
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Understand. I too, used the defaults. I'm used to reg cleaners that show
you what is junk and -then- give you a chance to delete or save. If you
ran it just to see what is there and didn't want to delete it, it is too
late, isn't it?

Glenn
 
LPV said:
Frank, I notice that Regseeker seems to be a beta build. Should this be of
any concern to me?Frank Delamarre <[email protected]>
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I've been using it with W98, W2K and XP systems for about a year now
(it appears to be abandonware) without any problems. It gives red and
green superfluous entries. If in doubt just delete the green ones.

Frank
 
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