Ishi
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You're missing my point.
See this current thread for more discussion on empty keys ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=26546&hl=
Actually, the app I was talking about in that thread was also Wise Registry Cleaner which I only install and use as a last resort when I think there are invalid registry entries that are obviously slowing the system a bit that my other registry cleaners can't detect.
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I created a folder on a separated disk partition where my installers are all kept. In case my PC gets formatted, they will remain in that folder as long as I don't format that partition where they are kept.
I also keep a number of installers and other files on a USB as a form of backup so I can take them to other computers and install them there.
If there is anything I want CCleaner to find and remove, that would be the leftover folders of uninstalled applications that are just occupying space since some applications don't fully tidy themselves up when they are uninstalled.
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If you are using Mozilla Firefox as the browser you used to download CCleaner, go to Tools on the menu bar near the top of the Mozilla Firefox Window, then choose Options and under "Main" tab, you can see which folder your downloaded files are saved.
Go to that folder, and find the file called ccsetup, click it and run the simple installation setup of CCleaner and by default, it is set to create Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts for launching it and from there, you should be good to go.
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Here is mine:
I just use the default windows 7 ones.
I let it randomly cycle through all of the preinstalled ones. Kinda cool to have a new background every time I use the pc.
Hey you are playing songs of The Beatles from the desktop gadget. I am a huge fan of The Beatles too lol.
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After running Ccleaner, the volume control icon in the task bar was missing. I checked the audio option in the control panel and the option to show the icon in the taskbar has a checkmark, This is the first time this happend. I have 4 other computers running Windows XP and never had this problem.
Right click the sidetray near the clock and choose Customize Notification Icons and from there you can choose whether to hide or show notification icons. You can choose to hide or show the tray icons from there and click OK.
Open CCleaner and uncheck the"Tray Notifications Cache" checkbox for cleaning. Chances are that you got this checked and that has cleared the settings on how icons in the sidetray are displayed.
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I recently ran CCleaner after installing Real Player, could any files been removed from the Real Player download (The last download file location was checked when I ran CCleaner)?
I think it will NOT remove the files you have downloaded fully then saved as a none temporary file but if you have any sort of incomplete downloads, those incomplete downloads will most likely be deleted.
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Disc Cleanup removed a smidgin under 18.1 megabytes, and CCleaner a tad under 17.9 (both removing only one restore point), so there's not much in it at all.
But that proves the CCleaner does delete the restore points you order it to remove.
Interesting. I have 22 restore points listed, with Sys Vol Info at 20.0 GB. Deleting just one should gain avg 0.9 GB?EDIT: A math conflict.
Well I think its impossible for any of us here to calculate how much space you will free if you delete just one restore point since every restore point is different in size from one another.
If you want to remove a few restore points, you can choose to delete them with CCleaner and find out how much space you will free. You can remove the oldest ones and the ones listed for less important system events.
I have severe math problems too
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Wow, 320 GB, that's a different issue.
Why don't you try the app, I suggested you then??? When you open its disk cleaner tool, it auto-detects all drives plugged in your system and that includes USBs and external hard drives. It searches for junk in all those external drives.
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On the other hand I believe Ccleaner only removes the pointer that designates a multi-mega-byte folder,
whilst Windows will purge all but the last of the multi-mega-byte folders.
If you had several restore points, why don't you try removing just one of them with CCleaner and check the drive if it gained a few more MBs of space after doing so???
If it gains a few more MBs of space, then that proves that CCleaner has really deleted the restore point rather that just disassociating the folder where it resides.
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I'm pretty certain it's the same as the paid-for version in this respect (though I haven't tried with the free version); you can create a rescue CD and restore the system from a Reflect image on an external USB drive - that's certainly how I've used it before.
I didn't know that an external USB is compatible for this "Reflect image" you are saying. Windows 7 does have this "system image" form of backup and when I tried to use that to my external USB, it says that that its not compatible but would be if it was an external hard drive, not an external USB.
Are you saying that this "Reflect image" is a backup feature of this wonder tool, Macrium Reflect Free Edition that is in a sense different from the "system image" form of backup in Windows and is compatible with external USBs???
Thanks....
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Check out the site Ishi ... http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp ... many people here including myself use it and highly recommend it.
Thanks a bunch, but can it make make a complete system image and save that on a CD that is bootable to restore the system even on the free edition???According to the comparison columns there, the free edition doesnt have the Windows boot menu support.
I need a little more info about this.
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Well how do I use this Macrium Reflect Free Edition you are saying?? Can this make a backup of your whole system much like the system image on Windows 7??? Or can it make you some bootable CD or disk from which to restore the system.Third-party disk imaging software such as Macrium Reflect Free Edition make a Rescue CD to boot from that can, and also allows spanning multiple discs to restore a system.Windows 7 also has another advanced backup feature which is create a bootable system repair disk from which to restore the system. I made one months ago and I always leave at least 1 or 2 restore points in my main hard disk. So far, I think its fair to say that Windows 7 has by far the best backup and restore ability than any other Windows OS.
This topic makes me review the backup and restore thing again which is slowly flying off my head at the moment, honestly.
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It seem to work fine for me in version 2.28.1091.
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Yep, but none of you have shown that they have a TV tuner. And besides, the only thing hidden in the arrow thing in the side panel is the AVG notification icon. I have a screenshot to prove it and of course I am not noob to not look in there.Live TV - yeah, if you have a TV tuner it's pretty straight forward. No offense, it's nothing special to be perfectly honest. I don't even run gadgets - at least use a decent CPU meter: Download here You probably have stuff hidden in the arrow on the task bar any ways
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The clock, calendar and the CPU meter are gadgets preinstalled with Windows 7. I don't wanna add any more third party gadgets though.
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None of you has got anything better than this one lol.
What you see there on the small Windows Media Center screen is live TV, guys.
Notice the sidetray on the taskbar??? I got very few programs that run on startup. Only the desktop gadgets and the antivirus.
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It's there now, though it took about 10 or 12 hours to appear, and several system-restarts. In the meantime I've discovered a few Windows services disabled that shouldn't have been, so it's quite possibly related to that, and my problem - not Ccleaner's.
It's hardly the most important module of the program anyway, but if anyone else is having the same problem, please be aware that you can do the same thing manually by running Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disc Cleanup. When it has finished loading (may take a while), go to the More Options tab and there's an option to remove all but the last restore point there.
Thanks for replying Ishi
Yep but Windows' module for clearing restore points don't have the option which of the restore points besides the latest one gets removed. CCleaner allows you to choose specifically which of the restore points before the latest one gets deleted.
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Just make a known good backup image of the hard disk(s) when the system is in a good running state and hasn't had umpteen "tweaks" applied or the registry mucked around with, and the dreaded format and reinstall everything will be a long forgotten chore.
Well Windows 7 has that advanced backup feature they call "system image" that basically copies your whole system itself along with your files to an external hard drive. So far, I don't think that Vista and XP has this advanced backup feature.
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"fixing" registry problems usually results in programs cutting the string at a certain substring in my experience
You mean disassociating programs, functions and such??
I don't know why people are obsessed with cleaning their system registry 99% of the time it's not really needed and certain doesn't make your machine any faster.In a worse case scenario you could always use the repair option in Windows and keep all your existing documents and media files untouched.
Well in my own experience, it did speed the system to some degree. Even if no apps are crashing that much and even if you did all the tweaking Microsoft would suggest, the PC still doesn't retain its working condition when it was new so the problem is most likely to be the vast number of invalid registry entries. It would lag on occasion with unknown reasons.
The purpose of this topic right here is also to educate people about registry cleaning and what to commit in doing it. We can see what are the pros and the cons that's why I am a bit obsessed and curious.
And to answer your suggestion on the Repair option in Windows, people who had bought PCs or laptops, preinstalled with OS that don't have the Windows Installation CD will find this impossible. The system goes corrupt eventually even if there are no hardware problems. But if there was an innovative solution that can bring the PC to its good working condition again, then it should be a huge relief.
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Well my minor suggestion is why not add additional options to the context menu like what I suggested on my first post above? Surely, that wouldn't be too hard and will really improve things a bit.
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Well usually when there are only a few keys fixed or removed, registry defrag isn't recommended.
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Well I was keeping a backup for the entire registry before I even made any registry cleaning with CCleaner or any other registry cleaner I tried and so far I haven't yet seen any consequences. My system is very stable. Its been close to 3 months.
But there was actually one time when I restored only the CLSID section that I ended up having to format the computer back when I was still using Vista. It was unexplainable, my system startup won't even get to the log on screen. I tried running in safe mode but it was no use.
I am very strict in terms of maintenance though. I am now using Windows 7. There was this program that can supposedly "fix" them rather than delete them cause deleting and fixing are different right???
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You shouldnt just delete any key regardless if it's empty or not.
That's why I had backups.
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I don't think it is possible to install your operating system in your USB flash drive. USBs use fast flash memories and by default, formatted as FAT or FAT32, not the standard NTFS on internal hard drives where you install the operating systems and besides, many USBs have far smaller capacities that hard disks and, lets say those only 1,2,4 and 8 GB in size.
CCleaner does have an option to clear certain files and folders in the computer. Just open CCleaner, go to Options, click the Include button and from there you can see the Add Folder and Add Files buttons. Clicking the Add Folder button lets you browse in whatever location in the computer that you want CCleaner to clean and that includes USBs and even the folders inside those USBs.
The trick is, if you add a folder on the USB in the include list, how would you suppose that CCleaner will know which files are safe to delete inside those folders???? It might end up deleting important files in your USB.
Well if you want a program that can supposedly search for junk files on the USB, there is a free program called Advanced System Care 3. Its not really fast. It has this disk cleaner tool for all drives and you can use it to search for junk on the USB only but for multiple times, I tried to scan my USB with that disk cleaner tool, no junk files were ever detected.
If the USB is small in size, especially if it doesn't have many folders and subfolders, its not hard navigating inside it and locating which files are no longer needed.
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OK but as far as I am concerned, its not the only one that is gonna suggest something like that. I will edit my post above.
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where does trial ware save its information?
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Mmmm. I was wondering about this too. I experienced it too. You download a trial software and after 30 days, the trial should be over, you uninstall the app, run CCleaner, hoping to get rid of the registry entries associated to the app, you reinstall the app but still, it knows that its trial version has ended.
I guess, when you install an app with a trial version, it creates a folder or command file somewhere in the computer and that stays there even when the app gets uninstalled so when you reinstall it, that folder or command file tells the app that the trial version is over.
If its some hard to find object in the computer's C: drive or the registry, its something that CCleaner can't find or ignored.