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Glenn

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  1. exactly pagedefrag is an excellent utility..

    you also could try ntregop..it eill compact registry to make it smaller and fastest.

    I think you're missing my point ... PageDefrag has never had to defrag my registry because its analysis has always shown that there is no fragmentation.

  2. I'm inclined to respect the opinion from Windows Sysinternals and have used their Pagedefrag utility.

     

    Interesting thing though ... even after years of editing the registry using regedit and cleaning it using CCleaner, Pagedefrag has always shown no fragmentation of my registry hives.

  3. Hi. When I right click, the info I get is about the icon in my "Desktop". There is no "Find target", to go to where the program is downloaded.

    Sounds like CCleaner.exe is installed to your Desktop, i.e., it's the actual program not a shortcut icon.

  4. Now I don?t know where they went, I just have the 2.18 icon on my Desktop. This version still seems to work OK.

    Right-click the icon > Properties to see where CCleaner.exe is located. It's possible that one version did not install to C:\Program Files\CCleaner.

  5. Wiping free space has no effect on speed or disk capacity. It is a security measure which overwrites disk free space to prevent recovery of deleted files.

     

    EDIT: Dennis beat me to it. BTW, if you have almost 59 GB of free space, why worry?

  6. Check Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types to see if the .dat file has the WMP icon associated.

     

    If not, the WMP icon has probably become the default icon for unknown file types.

     

    EDIT: On my computer, .dat files display the standard unknown file type icon.

     

    And one last possibility ... on a file downloaded from the internet, it may have been accompanied by an Alternate Data Stream file (super hidden file type) which AFAIK can associate an icon. You may want to try an ADS file viewer such as NirSoft AlternateStreamView. BTW, this is why it's safer to set Windows Explorer to not hide file extensions ... you can't rely on the icon.

  7. Quick question, what about the folder \documents and settings\yourname\local\settings\temp

    Cleaned if Windows > System > Temporary Files is selected. Cleaning behaviour is modified by selecting/deselecting Options > Advanced > Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 48 hours

     

    Note that there may be some temp files that are locked in use by the system.

  8. I looked at the documentation for pskill but it doesn't seem to support the /fi (filter) parameter.

     

    I found a couple of other sites (just Google "download taskkill.exe") that offer free copies of taskkill.exe but I'm not familiar with them and don't know if they're legitimate. Is computerperformance a safe site?

  9. Try this:

     

    Use Ctrl+a to select everything in the folder

     

    Use Ctrl+left-click to deselect the three folders one by one

     

    When only clip 0001 remains selected, hit delete.

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    ...(maybe it's safe to delete everything in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download ???)
    If all the updates you wanted installed successfully, it's safe to delete everything. In fact, the folder is supposed to self-clean the updates 10 days after successful installation. Some small files (licences for the software) may remain.
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