Hello everybody
i am kinda new to CCleaner and pretty naieve to all the techi ins and outs of computing but my love (obsession/ addiction lol ) of the internet has evoked a curiosity and i would love to startto understand exactly how my beloved machine works. Hopefully i will one day but for now it is a mystery i was hoping someone here cld start to help me solve part of! I have downloaded CCleaner in the hope it will make my computer faster and keep it healthy
I'm not quite sure what i have deleted!I have just done a full clean and erased all the cookies and even ran the registry cleaner in the hope that my computer will be less cliuttered, thanks to the registry prompt i backed up the ergistry files- at least i hope i did, well i saved the file in documents. I hope i haven't deleted anything crucial! Howveer i am not quite sure what it means to do a back up - is it like a restore point?
So while finding my way around CCleaner i noticed in the advanced settingss the option to save all settings to an INI file.
What will this do and what r the benefits?
What is an INI file ?
What does INI stand for?
What kind of programs use INI files?
whats a cookie? ( other than the familiar chocolate chip variety )
What purposes do the tempory files and cookies and registry entries serve?
What r the benefits of deleting them,?
are there risks to leaving them?
can viruses hide in cookies and tempoary internet files?
thanks curious
marthara