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Hi everyone, Andavari, your suggestion did the trick! Thanks a lot. Freed up 4,5GB - I never knew I had so much junk on my hard disk. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have been "Pireformed"! I'll download the Defraggler next - so we may be in touch at some later stage YoKenny, I'll certainly take my time (next weekend...) to update my PC, starting with your scenario. TTW

I am amazed at all this goodwill! One of the reasons I was going to try CCleaner was that the Windows tools haven't done the job. You wouldn(t believe how little free disk space I've left! Deleting loads of pictures and emails and letting the Windows defragmenter do its thing didn't help at all. I won't be at my PC for the next 20 hours or so, but I will certainly try your suggestions. YoKenny, yours seems the most straightforward, so I'll try that first. Davey, yours may need disk space that I just don't have... Anyway, I'll keep you posted! If it's Saturday evening as well where you live: enjoy it!

Dear people, Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, I am loggod on as admin. As to the second tip: I've tried to save the file to another location. And it is sitting there, too. But I've now discovered that both my downloaded files are zero KB... so I haven't actually downloaded anything at all except the file name. That may also explain why I don't get the Properties dialogue box that you describe. All bright ideas are still welcome - cheers!

I can't install CCleaner, and I'm stuck! This is what I've done so far. I've tried the two download links "FileHippo.com" and the "Alternative Download", followed by the "Open" button in the dialogue box. Each time, I get the message "Access to the specified drive, path or file is denied" - C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content IE5\... I've then tried to save the application in the Program Files folder, and what I find is: C:\Program Files\ccsetup212.exe - so that's only the setup and not the application itself, right? If I double click on that one or want to "Open" it, I get the message "C:\Program Files\ccsetup212.exe is not a validWin32 application". I now want to get rid of that again for a fresh start, but it doesn't appear in the list of programs that you can remove in the Control Panel. If I try to simply delete it in the Program Files folder, I get the message "Cannot delete ccsetup212.exe: there has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use." The icon in front of the file name looks a bit strange, too.. While I'm doing all this, I have no other applications running. I have Windows 2000 Professional SP4, and IE 6.0.2800.1106. I know, I know - I need to do some updating. That's why I want to use CCleaner in the first place! Can anyone help this dummy?