Hello:
I've never had this "problem," but apparently my son (who doesn't live close) has, and I would appreciate any comments regarding this:
He has installed and run CCleaner fore the first time, ever.
When he clicks on Cleaner icon, and then the Analyze button, the program just runs,
and runs, and runs.
I guess he's up to about 20 minutes or so, and had to shut it down.
Is this likely a hang-up, or for the first time ever scanning, it really takes these kinds of times ?
Or,... ?
Thanks,
Bob
Depending upon how many junk files are on his system yes it can take a long time during the very first scan, a few people have reported that as well. However after that first cleaning the amount of time should be faster if he regularly uses CCleaner say; once a day, or once a week.
That is true. I tested this out on y PC and others for the first time and it has ran for ages, but after while, it does indeed speed up.
Yeah, first time can take a little time. But I think maybe there should be an indicator or something that makes sure it doesnt stop.
That is a good idea; having some sort of countdown timer. At the very least, there could be a countup timer, so that you still have some acknowledgement that something is going on.
Also, maybe there could be a bar at the bottom (or top) of CCleaner that would tell you what individual file or folder CCleaner is currently cleaning. You wouldn't really be able to read it unless it was working on a very large file, because the text would change so quickly, but at least you would know something is happening. Having the same horizontal bar fill up over and over again tells me absolutely nothing, so an information bar would be more logical.
But until these features are incorporated into CCleaner, one thing Robert11's son can do is check the hard drive activity light on his computer's case. If it is consistently blinking, obviously something is going on.
Another way to check for activity is to look at ccleaner.exe under the Processes tab in Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del). If it shows serious CPU usage, there is also a chance that CCleaner is still working. The only problem with this is that, if the program has frozen, Task Manager will often still show heavy CPU usage, so your best bet is to just check the hard drive activity light.