[doesn't clean "prefetch" files]

Hi Disk4mat,

Good thing we have other clear headed guys like you out there.

I never even thought about Auto Restart being turned on.Never even considered turning it on.

That is what throws a lot of users into the Reboot loop.Just like what happened last month with SP3 non-Intel equipped machines.

I hope that is all it is.It does sound like he just got his system up and running.

Thanks,

davey

--FIRST-- many thanks for the INTELIGENT responses for a screwy little bug..i kinda figured it wasn't anything THAT serious..the prefetch files are starting to accumulate to the point of almost 1 mb !..and ,under normal curcimstances,with the size of the hardrive in most systems-a "wasted" amount of space wouldn't be worth worring about..BUT--with my franken-computer,glued together by a nephew(his old tower-and he took the 40 gig drive,and put in a 10 or so-i forget)-but i start getting "running low on disk space" popups,..c-cleaner keeps my system running JUST FINE ..i was looking for just that extra bit of hardrive space,..when c-cleaner showed me the prefetch files,i thought it wise to ask..--

my system is xp sp2(tried to load 3-not enough disk space!!)..i gig processor,and not enough hardrive space..this is paticurally frustrating,as when he glued it together,he threw in a scuzzy drive,and three other hard drives..the first time i took it back to him,he unplugged the scuzzies,and disabled them(something i'm NOT prepared to do)..he said they were slowing down the system..i'd rather have the space over the few nano-secounds that bugged HIM-not me...can't get him to stop by and play with it-despite it being over two years now..

--his work had him twenty minutes away..he had time to stop and see an old boyfriend-but not me..-but-he did give me the system..am i still allowed to be ...miffed??

..anyway,the autocomplete thing works fine as long as i just leave it unchecked..

many thanks to ALL who responded

windtalker

[doesn't clean "prefetch" files]

FINALLY!!..i've finally got my system to let me post my question on your forum..

i'm running xp on a tower with 1 gig proscessor..

--JUST downloaded the latest c-cleaner,seems to be doing the same thing..i run CCleaner,(3x overwrite)

when first analysed,it finds a bunch of files,but-when i analyse again,it still shows a couple mb's of files from diffrent programs i've run,all with a common "prefetch" word in them..

--is there anything i can do to clean out these files,as they are starting to accumulate,to the tune of nearly 2 mb's..not an unberable number,considering how mutch carp this terriffic program has cleaned out of my system,making it run SOOOO mutch faster and better..

 

ALSO, i WAS having trouble when the "autocomplete" box was checked,immediately after hitting the "clean" button,my system would do a HARD BOOT ,going all the way to the boot screen,just like i'd hit the off button(but i hadn't)..since un-checking the autocomplete button,everything seems to be both hunkey AND dorey,,,-cept for the "prefetch" thing..

--any thoughts??