Installed CCleaner, do not have option to run as Limited User

I am new to CCleaner - used to use CleanCache, but their new 3.5 version doesn't play well with my system for some reason anymore (its a MS Net thing).

Anyway, I installed CCleaner while logged on to my admin account and it seems to run fine. But when I go to one of my limited accounts (my wife has one and so do I for which we use for email and surfing), there is no icon, no START menu item to choose - nothing, except when I right click on my desktop's Recycle Bin icon, it offers "Open CCleaner" and "Run CCleaner". Is it okay to run it from there? Seems to me that a basic desktop icon should have been created upon install, and at least a START menu entry.

I read about others using CCleaner on limited accounts, but for the life of me, I can't find a way to run the thing when logged on as a limited account (no icons indicating executables.

Any ideas? Thanks!

IronKoi

welcome to the forums.

try right clicking the recycling bin then click "open Ccleaner".

thats a shortcut that should work from any account.

if that doesnt work, we can just make an icon for you.

On the desktop, right-click, New, Shortcut.

Browse to Program Files\CCleaner and select ccleaner.exe

Wow, this has to be the fastest forum reply I've ever seen. I wasn't even done editing my post before you guys responded. I edited my post to say that I can open it from recycle bin, and your responses tell me its cool to open it that way.

You guys rock. Thanks alot!

IronKoi

glad we could help.

hope to see you around on the site ;)

Feel free to run ccleaner from the recyecle bin, that is what it's for. :)

Also, welcome to the Forums.

Okay, I DO have one question while someone is out there to help. I was using CleanCache because it would overwrite (wipe) the files it deleted instead of just marking it for Windows deletion (blah, blah, etc, etc). It would do this for index.dat as well on start up.

I've read a few posts (not necessarily this forum, but others) where CCleaner, while good at deletion, doesn't do such a good job in wiping, and won't wipe index.dat very well.

Any truth to this? I just ran the CCleaner in clean mode and I'm assuming it "wiped" everything, but it did it in seconds, versus an hour for CleanCache. How can that be, do you think CCleaner just better software? I know its not fair asking someone who may have never used CleanCache, but it just seems weird that it would wipe so much faster.

IronKoi

there is a secure file deletion that overwrites the data in Ccleaner under options.

it does take a while though.

It doesnt do that good of a job with index.dat files from what ive heard.

there is a new version that came out about a week ago but im not really concerned about index files.