how do I start the clean?

CCleaner for Windows
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just downloaded cccleaner, received .exe file. how do I start the clean?? thx for a quick reply !(I am a little dorky)

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double click the downloaded .EXE file, follow the prompts (untick the Google stuff if you don't want that) and it'll put an icon on the screen.

double click the icon to start CCleaner, usually the default settings suffice and click Analyse to see what it will remove.

if you're happy with the results, click Run Cleaner and it will remove the crap.

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Ninja'ed by mta. :P

I would only add this, but this is just me, maybe overly cautious.

Uncheck all the boxes in the CCleaner tabs and the registry section.

Go back into the CCleaner tabs and check and clean each box one at a time until you find out what each one does.

Don't use the registry cleaner unless you are absalooteley sure what you are doing.

Remember where you saved the registry backups if you do.

also,

This post shows you how to turn off the monitoring function if you want to: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=41860

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ah yes, the monitoring, thanks @login123, I forgot about that new 'feature' being ON.

one day it may be turned off as the default setting.