djm
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I WISH that I was kidding. STILL scanning though....
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I will give some credit to the SLOW scan. At least 5 times my antivirus alarm went off as it was scanning and quarantined those files.
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Only the first time. Shut down every instance of browsers including the umteen instances of Chrome that run whether or not the program is even open. But sure- I realized that it made no difference whether a browser was actually open or not. Running now for close to 4 hours and just got to 25%.
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It all started by reading an online article about slowing PC performance. Get and use CCleaner it said.
Here is the deal- I am actually running it again right now and it has been HOURS. Watching it run and I can see each and every file it is going though and none of the files takes less than half a second to scan.
I am running Windows 7 64-bit. The CCleaner v is 5.08.5308 and all settings were left alone.
I only got suspicious the FIRST time I tried to run it earlier today and it was taking FOREVER to scan. I looked up YouTube videos, granted they are ALL years old, and the scans take mere seconds to complete.
I read a few comments online to run it in Windows Safe Mode. Same thing. SSSSLLOOOOOWWWW.
The scan has been running right now for over 3 hours and the progress bar is still at 0%. It IS running and I can see the file names as it goes through them.
What am I missing to make CCleaner actually work as promised?
Slow doesn't even begin to describe it. Glacial would be closer.
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After all that was finished I hit "Run Cleaner". 8368.313 seconds later (just under 2 1/2 hours), I gained 35,868 MB. Worked just fine, I guess. But WHY did it take so LONG??? Anyone?