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Thank you for your discussion/suggestions. I'll let you know how I fare after I figure out how to restore a files backup from the crashed machine to another machine.

I have an IBM machine running Windows XP Pro sp3. Recently, a message appeared that a certain fle, KB2559049-IE8 (a Microsoft update from 2011) had become corrupt and/or unreadable. Apparently, I did not address this problem quickly enough, mostly because of my ignorance about this problem. A few days ago, while the machine was idle, the dreaded blue screen appeared, the machine shut down, and attempted to restart. When it got to the Windows loading screen, after about 4 runs of the progress bar (usually runs about 20 passes before finishing), the same blue screen re-appeared, and it went

Thanks for your comments. If Piriform makes an "app", I guess i'll see it on their site. In the meantime, we'll survive cleaning bit by bit.

We recently purchased a MS Surface tablet w/Windows 8 RT. Can we run cCleaner on this machine? The tech/salesperson made it clear that NO programs/apps not in the Microsoft Store could be loaded. Does anyone have an opinion on this? We'd like to run cCleaner on this machine, if possible. Lots of "crap" is already collecting and we're deleting this stuff as we find it. We're running cCleaner on a Windows 8 Asus Ultrabook, so we can see when we do a "clean" where the "crap" is (not quite in the same places as XP!). It's painful to have to find each and every depository for "crap" on the "

Thank you for your comments/suggestions.

This is the first time I've actually posted something in a setting such as this, so bear with me if some details of posting etiquette have not been observed. I have read/scanned just about all of the entries for this topic but have not seen anyone address my particular question. I am not a "techie" as such, but I do make use of many software apps/programs on my computers. My technical conserns involve making sure that the computers are always clean and workable. Thus, I use an anti-virus/spyware program, make sure updates for Windows and other programs are installed ASAP, and, of cou