Slow doesn't even begin to describe it. Glacial would be closer.

CCleaner for Windows
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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?

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You mean you are using your browser while Ccleaner is running?

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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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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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I WISH that I was kidding. STILL scanning though....

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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?

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Because you were infected?

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At least 5 times my antivirus alarm went off as it was scanning and quarantined those files.

Sounds like you have a heavily infected system that's causing it to run slowly.

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It deleted 35 GB, I'd say that takes a long time (especially if you enabled any secure erase options in ccleaner)

A first clean (or one which has had a long time between cleaning) will also be big and take a while.

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It deleted 35 GB, I'd say that takes a long time (especially if you enabled any secure erase options in ccleaner)

Also matters if there were allot of small files, they take longer to delete.