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I would suggest that you check everything in there except, Start Menu shortcuts, Desktop Shortcuts, and Wipe Free Space. However, checking the User Assist History clears the list of recently opened programs on the Start Menu but if you don't care about that, better have that checked as well. Also, in the Application tabs, you should uncheck everything under Mozilla Firefox if that browser is currently opened. If you want to clear Mozilla's browsing history, better check all the boxes under Mozilla Firefox but you have to do this once you want to end your session at the end of the day. Wipe free space will make it much longer for the cleaning process to complete, depending on the size of the hard drive but momentarily, I suggest you use this feature and uncheck it again once you are done. When you check the cleaning categories there under Advanced, you get a warning of what could happen so you better read them and make your own choices on what to do.

Because its easier for some of us to say it that way. See Sea Cleaner. Even my friends would say it this way. But the Spanish one is good.

Yep but that can only happen if he gets back here and perhaps this whole discussion will help other people reading this thread too. I think its wrong to say that his problem was all or mainly because of hardware.

As the title would suggest, how would you say CCleaner???? Do you say it like C cleaner (see cleaner) or C C cleaner (see see cleaner)??? I personally prefer to say it see see cleaner. I know that many of you say it that way....

Well he said he was running XP Professional and he never mentioned anything about his hardware. But the question is, why did he pick this moment to start questioning his computer's performance??? Perhaps it was running well before and now it isn't because of lack of maintenance. Perhaps he wasn't a computer maintenence expert. We are here to answer that.

I think they should really add this feature in future versions of CCleaner. There is this app called Advanced SystemCare 3 that has this feature of cleaning basically all storage devices connected on the PC including USBs, not sure that it would work on external hard drives but its worth to try. I think that improving CCleaner would further enhance its credibility. There are still areas it cannot clean but if it can, it'll be even better and surely more people who join this forum everyday would say wow, you guys rock. We see a lot of people register here on a daily basis just to make a few questions about CCleaner and once it has improved, more of these guys will be satisfied.

But it would be better if all this can be viewed upon the interface of just one application. I frankly don't understand why XP can't have the install date column in CCleaner's module.

I use AVG as well and CCleaner often deletes 50MB worth of AVG stuff or so but this is mainly AVG logs, records of events in AVG such as when did it start, when did it update, or even scan results and deleting them is just fine, unless you want to keep track of AVGs activities or if there are any viruses found on one of the recent scans.

Try uninstalling CCleaner and install it again. Maybe that would resolve the issue.

Well they better implement this for Windows XP user since there are still many of them today.

You are saying that you don't have the install date column when you use CCleaner v.2.28 on Windows XP???

You are suggesting that the CCleaner module for uninstalling programs should have the ability to be sorted by when the program was installed. I agree on this one but I believe that this has already been implemented.. Check the screenshot.

I listen to songs from the 60s, especially from The Beatles.

This is strange. 64 bit has always been more complicated.

When you run CCleaner's registry cleaner, a prompt will give you a chance to backup the registry issues found and from there, just click yes. If you wanna back up the WHOLE registry, open Start Menu, open Run, type regedit, press ENTER and when the Registry Editor window appears, just click File on the menu bar and choose EXPORT. Now you will be asked where to save the backup, just remember where you saved it. By default, the backup will be saved on the My Documents folder. If you wanna restore a backup, just go to the folder where you kept the registry backups and double click it and from there, they will be restored. They should look like this:

That seems weird. A single dll making your programs bad. I guess it might a virus since even if you did try to restore from a backup the problem reappears. Could be a virus.

No of course, it is not set to remove those programs. Having them checked means you will clear logs from those apps such as scan results on Windows Defender or maybe custom view adjustments on Microsoft Office. They are pretty much safe to delete and you should not worry about this being a stupid question at all if this is probably your first time using CCleaner. Its not bad to ask.

Groovy.

Well I also had these duplicate startup keys when I was using Vista. I would monitor these startup items using Windows Defender ( I don't think we have this option for Windows Defender in Windows 7). There are programs such as the applet for Windows Media Center, you disable it on startup using Windows Defender, you turn off the PC for the changes to take effect. You turn the PC on again, you use Windows Media Center again, you look at the startup programs on Windows Defender, you see that this applet now have a duplicate key for startup which is enabled besides the one that you disabled before. You can then delete the duplicate but there was no way to disable it permanently as long as you keep using Windows Media Center. It has no problem but was a hassle. This doesn't exist in Windows 7 though. There are also programs that keep starting up when you open the computer, no matter how you disable them using msconfig, Windows Defender or CCleaner unless you disable them on startup using the program's own settings. One example of this is Yahoo! Messenger. When I first installed it, I immediately went to its settings and disabled it from starting on the computer's startup.

In honor of the devs of CCleaner: "Genius in one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." -Thomas Edison

I think you have to uncheck the "User Assist History" option in CCleaner. Cause if you have that checked, CCleaner will tend to delete all the shortcuts of recently opened programs on the Start Menu besides those that were pinned there on purpose. You can clearly see that on the prompt when you check the "User Assist History" option in the Advanced cleaning category. Having the Menu order cache can reset your custom ordering.

I noticed that as well and I don't think they actually write MS in many of the previous versions of CCleaner. I think there is plenty of space on the row where that text is fitted so I guess its better that they just make it Microsoft Corporation, instead.

That's the time when CCleaner comes into play but before you can use such a tool, you need to know what is causing your PC to slow down. Microsoft would suggest: 1. Disk Cleanup- go to My Computer, right click your drive, choose Properties, then press Disk Cleanup. Check all the checkboxes there and press OK. This will clean your hard drive of crap and unwanted data. I recommend you to do this first before disk defrag. Microsoft's own disk cleanup tool will take longer to complete, though. CCleaner seems to be the right tool for this but you gotta know what you are doing. 2. Disk Defragmentation- do this after you have done disk cleanup. Go to My Computer, right click your drive, choose Properties, and choose the Tools tab. Then you should see disk defragmentation and you will then have the option which of your drive partitions to defrag. This process will take a lot of time if you use Microsoft's own defrag tool. It will take a long time if you have a large hard drive but programs that can be downloaded from the Internet can make this process somehow faster. Piriform has Defraggler for this job. 3. Check system for errors. Go to My Computer, right click your drive, choose Properties, and choose the Tools tab. Then you should see error checking just above disk defrag. Hit the "Check Now" button. Since you are using the computer, uncheck the "automatically fix file system errors" option cause that only works for drives that are not currently in use then check the "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" checkbox and click Start. While this operation is going on, I recommend you to close all your programs. This will take some time but I would only recommend you to do this once a week if you use the PC everyday. This can be used on USBs too. 4. Disable startup programs. Open Start Menu, click Run and type msconfig. Choose the Startup tab and you can see a list of programs that run when you start your computer. You can then disable those that you don't need when your computer starts by unchecking the checkboxes there. But DO NOT disable your antivirus or firewall if you want security. Click OK but you will have to restart the computer for that to take effect. See if it does. Since you are using Windows XP, visual effects shouldn't be a concern. If you have done all of this, and still the PC is slow, you will have to use an advanced tool such as CCleaner's registry cleaner. Back up your registry by opening registry editor. To open registry editor, go to Start Menu and choose Run, type regedit. if the registry editor window appears, choose File and Export. You will then have to choose a location where to restore your registry backup. This is in case something gets wrong. You should also consider doing virus scans regularly. You can also open your computer and clean your CPU. Dust can also slow down the system. Hopefully, I helped.

I think his problem was that he was installing so much of this security software that are now having conflicts with one another. Typically, I wouldn't recommend 2 or more firewalls and I personally don't like Avira. I hate it when Avira shows that banner in your desktop when you start the computer. Try Panda Cloud Antivirus then. Its been highly rated. When it comes to utility, having removed CCleaner is a very unwise thing. His PC will get loaded with crap and eventually get slow again. An what's the easiest and possibly safest utility software out there for free??? You got the one and only CCleaner. Man I love this app.

If it linked to your desktop, or start menu, it could possibly link to obsolete shortcuts and stuff. Also, files that are no longer there but still listed in the recent items on the start menu tend to appear as obsolete stuff so if you have opened files from a USB for instance, they should still appear in the recent items list on the start menu even if you have already unplugged the USB. I would recommend you to use the cleaner tool of CCleaner first to get rid of this stuff then use the the registry cleaner function. Invalid desktop shortcuts can also come when you uninstalled a few apps but then their desktop icons still remain, those would cause more issues. And the latest update also made registry cleaning a little better. If you are not the only one using that PC, someone else could have done something in your computer that has made those registry errors. But I guess, you always make a backup anyway. If they are not related to anything serious, they should be safe to fix.