Klaustrophobia

ok, well now that i know that kind of time is normal, i'm fine with it. i was really only bothered because it used to do the same amount of cleaning in under a second with the old versions (like it claims ), and i thought i had screwed something up in the program. i don't use secure delete, and i like having a large-ish temp internet files space for long browsing sessions repeatedly visiting the same pages. when i don't need the temp files anymore, i run CCleaner. as for defragging, i don't do it specifically to compact the free space, but i can't really help that it does. any time i run the analysis and see fragmented files (other than temp files) i will defrag. that's really the important part to me, because it speeds up the loading of programs. and of course i keep updated on windows update

i run CCleaner about once a week on average. i always keep my drive defragmented, but i just use the windows defragger. i defrag after every program, driver, or update install, and then every so often when i think about it if i haven't done one for a couple of weeks or so. ahh, analysis just finished. here we go. left out the file list except for temp internet files. as a side note, i turned off system restore because i found it to be useless. there was something i did a while back messing with my computer, i knew i could screw something up before i did it, so i created a manual restore point. made my changes, and as i expected, they messed some stuff up. went to restore from the manual save point, and not a DAMN thing changed back. so i figured there's no reason to have it sitting there taking up resources and disk space if it is going to be of zero benefit. i DO keep it on my laptop where i keep most of my work, but i've turned it down to minimum space to use. can't be too careful with all my class notes and projects. ANALYSIS COMPLETE - (270.807 secs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 329.3MB to be removed. (Approximate size) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Details of files to be deleted (Note: No files have been deleted yet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IE Temporary Internet Files (16281 files) 321.2MB and just for kicks: CLEANING COMPLETE - (12.452 secs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 337.3MB removed.

the version that would run instantly was WAY back, 1.4- something i think. back when it had the older, not quite as snazzy icon. if you know what i'm talking about. the first time i ran it, it analyzed over a gb of stuff to delete in about 2 seconds. subsequent runs would display times of .1-odd seconds for upwards of 600mb. i don't run CCleaner with other applications up, but i don't go through and kill background processes either. i have indexing and system restore turned off, but these had both been on when it was fast. i thought maybe CCleaner used the indexing service to quickly identify junk files when it first started happening, but no improvement when i turned indexing back on. norton corperate edition was the antivirus i had when it was fast, but that can't be the issue because it started with the slow scans before i dumped norton for avg. my hard drive is a 300gb with around 50% free space (i have a lot of movie and lossless audio files). i'm pretty sure it's not the amount of data slowing it down, because by watching what it is analyzing as it goes, it spends about 80% of the rediculously long time in the temporary internet files. the only other brain wave i have on this is that if for some reason CCleaner scans the entire physical area of the hard drive, that could be it, because i used to have a 40gb hdd. though i can't remember if the slowdown happened around the same time as the HDD switch. as for the flash thing, i have an experiment planned to confirm that it is CCleaner or not. if it comes up positive, i guess it will be a matter of hunting through the reg detections and excluding it.

i should have mentioned, i already did that. which is why i'm not 100% sure it is CCleaner doing it. i was hoping it would be a known bug/required setting i'm missing if it was CCleaner. any thoughts on the slow thing though? anyone? bueller?

got another question to add. is CCleaner known to cause problems with flash player? i keep having to reinstall my flash player, but simply going to the flash site and downloading it does not fix it. i have to run an uninstaller program to clear it first, and this keeps reoccuring. it seems that it might be happening after i run CCleaner scans, but i haven't been able to confirm it. i would think it's the registry scans that do it.

i have it running on 2 computers, one lenovo laptop w/ intel T2500, 2GB ram, ati mobility x1400 desktop: amd 5600+ @3.1 ghz, amd770 chipset mobo, 2 gb ddr2800 ram, ati HD 4850 both running XP pro SP3. previously had an athlon XP 2.4 setup with 1gb ram, ati 9800pro. when CCleaner used to be fast, it was on this. but it went slow before the new build. seemed to happen after one of the updates, but never went back even with rollbacks. edit: forgot, anti-virus is AVG free 8.0

Iv'e been using CCleaner for a long while now, and back when i first started using it it was damn near instantaneous. Now it takes around 5 minutes to complete the scan, occasionally as long as 15. The actual deletion is considerably faster, but still around 30 seconds when it used to be microseconds. Anyone know how to get CCleaner back up to speed? I always stay updated.