Aethec

One word: FINALLY. They are...what...4 years late? Hopefully we'll be able to use 64-bit browsers now Thanks for the link.

The white-on-black text is still horribly ugly on my system. Like, nearly unreadable. Worse than OSX.

Defraggler require Windows 2000 or newer: http://www.piriform.com/docs/defraggler/introducing-defraggler/system-requirements However, if you say you managed to install it on a Win98 system, maybe the devs should prevent this?

I stand corrected then. However, tskill-ing Explorer in Vista/7 works. The only problem is that sometimes it doesn't restart.

That happens sometimes, unfortunately. Opening Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) lets you open Explorer again (File >> New task).

Type for /l %i in (1,1,1000) do fsutil file createnew %temp%\%i 1 into a command prompt, uncheck the "Only delete temp files older than 24 hours" checkbox in CCleaner's Options >> Advanced, and clean. This should give you enough time to double-click the Run Cleaner button (it will create a thousand of 1-byte files in your Temp folder).

I believe WFS doesn't use CCleaner's settings - it's always 35 passes. +1 for the more user-friendly messages - I already put one in French for WFS, but obviously cannot do it for other languages.

A reboot is not needed. Typing "tskill explorer" into a command prompt / the Start Menu search bar will restart explorer.exe and thus reset the tray notification cache if it has been cleaned. CCleaner could just do that - the only visible consequence is that all open Explorer windows will disappear, and the taskbar will disappear for a short while. Faster than rebooting [EDIT] It seems a reboot is still needed in XP and lower.

I think the drive map legend should be moved to another tab, after "Search".

There's no point in deleting Restore Points. They are automatically deleted if space is needed anyway.

I think this would take a long time. If there was, say, a "C:\Users\*\somefile.txt", CCleaner'd have to recursively search C:\Users to find all files named "somefile.txt". Not really fast.

2 GB is enough. As long as you don't use memory-heavy software such as Firefox video-editing ones.

I think what he meant is to actually parse the files' content ? Microsoft's COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) already does this if I'm not mistaken. They give it to Interpol and others.

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What would be the point ?

Well, anyway, the main thing to clean in OS X are applications leftovers, and there's already quite a lot of uninstallers...

That's what scarface suggested

Don't defrag the whole drive, but only the fragmented files.

Search your hard drive and Registry (Start >> Run... >> regedit) for mentions of Firefox and Opera, and delete those. I can't help you more, those detections are hardcoded in CCleaner and thus nobody knows what CCleaner does but the devs

Those missing shared DLLs can be safely deleted, I really doubt you (or anyone) are using .NET 1.0.

It's not too hard. Analyze, uncheck all keys, then for each key that appears : Check its properties If it is related to software you no longer have, check its checkbox If it is not, or you don't know what it is exactly, leave it unchecked Then, when you click "Fix Selected Issues", don't forget to accept the prompt that asks if you want to do a backup, and save it in somewhere you'll remember.

A Firefox/Chrome session has nothing about privacy issues...unless a) you do things you don't want others to know, you were doing them when closing the browser and without using Private Browsing, c) there are people you don't trust with physical access to your computer, and d) they have your password. The session cleaning is done to gain some free space.

The first ones are System Restore Points. They cannot be defragged (and anyway defragging them would be pointless since they are hardly used). Enabled system files/folders view in Windows Explorer, then add C:\System Volume Information\ to Defraggler's Exclude list. Pagefile.sys is the page file. It can only be defragged in a boot-time defrag, which is a feature planned for Defraggler 2. If you are sure there is currently nothing wrong with your computer, you can do the following: Disable System Restore: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-system-restore-in-windows-vista/ Disable the page file: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/understanding-windows-vista-paging-file-size/ Reboot in safe mode: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/force-windows-to-boot-into-safe-mode-without-using-the-f8-key/ Run a freespace defrag (Action >> Advanced) followed by a full defrag on your drive. Reboot (in normal mode this time) Enable pagefile again. Set both minimal and maximal size to 3072 MB (this is a computer-friendly size) Enable System Restore again

I once saw a "Useful Software" list in a tech-oriented newspaper listing CCleaner as a powerful anti-malware software..

Well, there is something about optimizing layout of boot files using Prefetch data. It can be disabled. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/157352-defragment-boot-files-enable-disable.html