glaustin

Many thanks guys. I'll check out the links. Just to be sure then, when Ccleaner tells me there are non-existent registry items or extensions, I should be careful (as I mentioned, I always back-up the registry beforehand)?

Hi guys I've run CCleaner for a while on older machines. Recently I bought a new Win 7, Dell Precision 6700, 64bit laptop and after several months I want to run its first clean-up (I always run a registry back-up when I run the registry clean). As this is a new laptop I don't want to banjax something, so I did a bit of surfing to confirm about using CCleaner and I'm a bit confused. I thought it was safe for dummies to run the clean-up and registry clean-up in their default settings, but it seems that may not be the case and some even advise not to run the registry clean at all! If my clean-up goes wrong and something stops working, can I run windows restore after to recover or does CCleaner erase those files for good? I look forward to hearing. Regards, Graham