Vista Backup Files

Hi,

My 1st post here, so off I go.

Love the product, however on my home PC (Vista Ultimate) the builtin backup runs daily. When I run CCleaner it finds temporary files created by the backup in the form of a zip file.

CCleaner dispalyes the name of every file in the zip file, which sometimes can be 2GB in size, so the process takes for ever. Why does it scan inside the zip file and not just delete it as a whole? This would make things much faster.

I look forward to some replies.

Chris

I don't know why it does that however if it's a critical backup that you need you can tell CCleaner to completely ignore it by going into:

Options->Exclude

I don't know why it does that however if it's a critical backup that you need you can tell CCleaner to completely ignore it by going into:

Options->Exclude

Hi,

Its not critical. I backup files to another drive but it just leaves this 'huge' zip file in the temp folder. It can be safely deleted, its just that CCleaner analyses every file in the zip, so it takes ages, it does this on the delete pass also.

Regards

I wonder if it could be from your installed antivirus software.

About the only solution I can think of at the moment is to manually delete that non-critical backup file.

About the only solution I can think of at the moment is to manually delete that non-critical backup file.

An "Automatic" alternative to manual deletion might be :-

1. Create a simple script file ( *.bat or *.cmd ) to delete the file, and after deletion completion to run CCleaner, and

2. Change your CCleaner startup link to instead aim at the above script.

Regards

Alan