Hello
I am new to this forum but not to CCCleaner. I've used it for years and know very little about it I am ashamed to admit.
I have 2 questions that concern me a lot. Hopefully, you members can help me and maybe even put my mind to rest. By the way, in case it's necessary to know, I recently acquired a new home PC. It is an HP Pavilion home desktop with Vista Premium Home Edition - also supremely bloated with megatons of junk that I'll never use and have no idea what to dump and what to keep. I'm way past trying to use Decrapifier though. Like XP, it has a kabillion running processes I'd love to slim down and am totally ignorant on that issue as well.
1) Does cccleaner detect and remove tracking cookies and/or data miners? If not, what free program compatible with Vista Premium 32 bit does?
2) I've always read this for years and years not to ever use a registry cleaner. When I had my XP, it was always written that XP never needed a registry cleaner anyway. I don't know what they say about Vista on that subject. Haven't had it long enough yet. In any case, all the newsletters I get, sites and blogs that I surf to all are adamant about and against using registry cleaners. I don't know what to do and need advise. I know that CCCleaner is highly regarded all over the Internet and I use it every day to dump my temporary internet files.
That's my story and my 2 questions. Any and all advise, comments and referrals about all I've written is welcome and greatly appreciated.
If important, I use ESET Security Suite (Nod32) for my security protection. Thank you.