I was with a friend the other day, who had a Win7 installation that took quite a long time to boot.
He had not crap cleansed it for quite some time (over a year or two).
I did a search with CCleaner which I installed and cleansed a lot of temp files.
Later his computer started three times faster. He offered me a cup of coffee and thanked me for helping him.
Actually I like to know from the qualified removal helpers here how many times and
to what an extent should one run a CCleaner routine on a computer?
Are there some common guidelines here? And would anyone like to advice us?
I work CCleaner as a stand-alone on the desktop and I also have the extension inside Google Chrome.
I like to thank you all for your reactions.
The first option is browser cache and $Temp & Internet temp cleaner.
You may use this cleaner whenever you want.
The best would be ~ once in mount.
The second options is registry cleaner.
This can help on some ~1 yea/ 2 year => old system but this is not what should be done often.
Once per year should be Ok. CrapCleaner (aka CCleaner) has a light registry scanner
so you can do this and more often if you will but this is not what should be use once per weak for sure.
Btw, do not use any additional registry cleaner and do not use (CCleaner as well) on Windows 8.x systems.
You have to ask him. Bad enough thread cannot be approved (no reaction from admin). I tried to re-phrase the topic txt to avoid the filter, too bad I could not find out what triggered that. Magna’s reaction is from a PM (with contents of this posting) he has sent me, important general information enough to pass it on here. ;D
That users should be cautious doing something towards the registry was long known to me.
In the past you always got the advice back up the registry first.
For some errors I saw this cure using CCleaner tools:
CCleaner will let you manage most Startup items and also do some other cleanup oriented operations. Launch CCleaner and choose Tools, Startup and in the bottom right, click the “Save to text file” button to save the Startup information to a text file - something like startup.txt
Save the startup information text file to your desktop (or someplace you can find it) open the text file with a text editor (notepad or WordPad), select all the text (Ctrl-A), copy all the highlighted text to the Windows clipboard (Ctrl-C) and then paste (Ctrl-V) the contents of the startup list back here in your next reply
and one of our qualified removers may come up with some instructions how to proceed. Quote taken from winhelp.
People mistakenly believe that full HDD will make system slow. Or a lot of games and apps installed. If they aren’t resident or they don’t start up on boot, you can have terabytes of data and the computer would not run any slower. Cleaning tons of TEMP files certainly won’t make it any faster as such. There has to be something else that is either accessing, scanning or reading for such performance drop to even occur.
Pol@ I don’t see anywhere on the CCleaner faq’s page where it mentions not to run it on win8 and more over listed under supported systems win8 is compatible ???
Like I said earlier I’ve always run it on my win 8 systems and that’s 3 of them now including the registry cleaning option after any program install or removal including Windows updates and not once has there ever been an issue " all good here " 8)
@all of those that can view and visit and react within this thread ;D,
Yes I feel it is important that the average user could be instructed to smoothly work CCleaner on crap in a secure way (maybe the light-touched secure “bob3160”-mode for average use and weekly cleansing is the recommended method) and the special workings of the program and tools should be performed under the guidance of a qualified removal helper to see to it that no harm is done while working CCleaner.
It is important to know exactly what to do and why to do it like this and no other way. When the user could work this crap cleaner with full confidence (eventually with some help and advice from the forum friends) we will have helped a lot of people to enjoy their devices better.
I learned so much here on the forums, I can hardly begin to tell (well it also takes some personal engagement and making other folks take a bit of interest in the contents of a thread ;). Thank you folks for all your welcome reactions.
@Craigb,
Would be nice to have some input from Martin here. Oldman and good old essexboy are among the best informed on these subjects as a teachers and instructors at G2G.
I could not imagine that CCleaner has not been designed with Win8 in mind. Maybe these issues had to do with the retracted Win8.1 download issues ??? But then also bob3160 should/would have been in the know, he is always out in the field and trenches and that news should have certainly struck his “antenna” when it had any importance.
We have requested this approval permission be reinstated, there are lots of topics awaiting approval as the moderators (who are the only ones allowed to do this), simply aren’t keeping on top of it.
There are topics that have been awaiting approval for some time and some that have even completed (been answered) by the avast! Überevangelists who are able to access but not approve.
Strangely I haven’t seen any spam topics ‘awaiting approval’ and they obviously have URLs within the posts.
I just had a reply from magna86 and all he recommended was not to use the “registry cleaning of CCleaner” which is the same advice for all versions of windows so if you don’t understand the registry don’t go there
