JDPower
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The older versions did say 48 hours.My version still says it leaves the last 48 hours of temp files, not 24.
What makes you say that? Have you looked at the file properties to check? Of course the easiest way to find out is to simply untick the "Only clean files older than 48 hours" then run CCleaner and see if those files are gone. It won't do any harm unless you're in the middle of installing something, I don't have the 48 hours box ticked at all and have never had an issue caused by it.And I did try putting a check only in the temp box, and it only chooses 6 empty folders and none of the myriads of temp files and other folders in there. Why is that? I would say most of those files are not new. -
I've deleted C:\Windows\$hf-mig$ on many systems over the years and never had any problems with Windows Update or it breaking the machine.
Trent
Then you've just been lucky, its not really a good idea deleting it.
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Frostwire and KMPlayer create unneeded folders in 'My Documents' which I have always had as inclusions in CCleaner:
E:\My Documents\FrostWire
E:\My Documents\The KMPlayer
Now in 2.29 these are not being deleted (I've gone back and tried 2.28 which DOES delete them) and ticking or unticking the 'Recurse subfolders' box makes no difference to this.
Unless I'm missing something obvious this is a bug, hopefully can be addressed.
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Ok, I'll try that but the behavior I am looking for is for CCleaner to clear the "User Assist History" and let it start over again. What I'm seeing is that running CCleaner clears the Start Menu "Recently Used" list but then also seems to prevent anything then being saved in the same list. After running CCleaner I can open a random number of infrequently used programs and none of the icons appear in the Start Menu.
IIRC, though I'm not sure if its the same in Win7, it requires a reboot before the list starts refilling. It would be the same no matter what program you used if that is the case, it's just how Windows works
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Friendship is like pissing your pants - everyone can see it but only you can feel it's warmth
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Now I have Vista Home.... nice and all, but it's a hog. Are there reliable progs to speed up this thing?
And.. ccleaner is a great prog, but I want to have a cleaner registry.. any tips anyone? (a lot of progs leave junk in there when I uninstall....)
I use trillian and am pretty ok with it, but there are prolly better alternatives. I use yahoo, aim, msn, icq (and maybe more) on there.. would like to keep using that... with little or no icons on the buddy list.. keeping it clean, simple, but not TOO basic. Can anyone recommend anything? (and also tell me why it's better)
Thanks.
Firstly, cleaning your registry will do little, and more likely nothing, to speed up your system. Check what programs are running in the background - any that are unneeded, any that are resource heavy like antivirus etc that may have lighter alternatives. How much RAM have you got?
For a chat client you may want to look at Miranda, especially from a performance point of view, as it uses next to nothing in terms of computer resources. It may take a little tweaking to get it looking and functioning how you prefer (eg some minor functions like smileys may require an additional plugin available from their site) but well worth the time.
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Try unticking "User Assist History" under the Windows tab>Advanced section
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Dennis, come on, you're disappointing us now - where's the pear tree
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It's light and really fast to install (took 10 seconds on my computer), I don't see why anyone wouldn't download it.
You're using a Microsoft OS, but don't want to install a Microsoft framework because you don't trust them ?
I don't install it cos I've never actually needed it so what's the point of having it.
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CC does NOT clean out the Flash folder, not unless you add it as a custom folder and I wonder why you keep saying it does?
Because it does on my computer and every computer I've used so can only assume there is some issue with the Flash cleaning on your system that needs looking at
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The only thing out of the ordinary I've ever done is one time I restored the system with Paragon Backup using DVDs I'd made. Everything runs fine, I just find it kind of strange.
It would run better if you could move the C partition to the front, most partitioning programs should be able to handle that. Also move the pagefile to the OS partition, there are simple instructions for that here:
http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/m...as-paging-file/
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CC would need to delete everything except "settings.sol" in that folder.
It already does.
You're still misunderstanding - the settings.sol contains some of the websites you can see via the Flash settings manager AND contains the Flash settings (open it yourself with notepad and have a look), they are the same file so it will make no difference moving the file elsewhere, cleaning, and putting it back - the settings.sol will still contain the same sites. CCleaner already cleans everything EXCEPT the settings.sol file for the reasons already mentioned, unfortunately this means any sites that are written to the settings.sol file show up in the Flash settings manager, this is the price you have to pay to retain Flash settings. Or if you don't care about the settings do as most do and add it to be cleaned by CCleaner.
If you were really desperate to keep the settings you're idea of a batch file may work - delete settings.sol, set you Flash settings to create a new clean settings.sol file, then move that file elsewhere and use a batch file to have it replace any new settings.sol file that is recreated.
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Deleting the settings is a drawback I agree and is a good reason why I think proper support for Flash cookies should be written into CC. It should be a minor bit of coding to put a checkbox in there, so users can have the cookies deleted, but CC will leave the settings.sol alone.
But, as I understand it, the settings.sol file IS a Flash cookie file, it just happens to also hold the Flash settings so there is no way of saving one without the other.
Regarding Silverlight I have never needed to install or use it so have no clue about the cookies produced by it unfortunately.
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Just for info, you need Silverlight installed to watch it.
Won't be bothering with that then
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Is there not more people than that interested by cleaning up that uselless stuff ? .. on my PC it s more than 1 GB in total
so are we not talking about cleaning here ?
Yes but only if it's SAFE and I am assuming there is good reason not all "$NT...." folders are removed (when hotfix uninstaller cleaning was introduced it DID clean more, then the problems started being posted here, I know, I was one of them)
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Looks to me like the D partition is at the start of the drive which is where your OS partition should be (as it's the faster part of the drive). Also the pagefile is showing as on the D partition and this should be on the OS partition, not a separate partition.
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You said the "only delete files in Windows temp folders older than 24 hours box is checked". Untick it, then run CCleaner.
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I know that sometimes we have a false positive but, althought it was 1 out of 40, how can we be sure??
Because it's far more likely the 1 out of 40 is wrong than the other 39 out of 40 are wrong.
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It is probably just recreated (as a new, empty, log file) as soon as you delete it. I've seen it happen sometimes and don't give it a second thought.
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Just to cover the obvious - have you tried reformatting and reinstalling Windows?
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Also try re-downloading it
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Was just reading about this on another site and the general consensus seemed to be 'very fast but very buggy'
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Don't tick any of the advanced section unless you understand exactly what you're doing. Have a look here for what each one does:
http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/ccleaner...d-windows-files
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Yup, its a scam site - the download does not download CCleaner but their own non freeware program